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Sophia Pfaff Shalmiyev

Sophia is currently attending the MFA Nonfiction program at PSU where she is the recipient of the Kellogg Award Fellowship and the Laurels Scholarship. Sophia is at work on her first book about marginalized female figures, misogyny, and escapism as a familial legacy. Sophia is the Nonfiction Editor at Portland Review and writes a bi-weekly column for the PDXX Collective.

MotherhoodJanuary 6, 2014

Lilac Stitches

By Sophia Pfaff Shalmiyev

I met my future stepmother in a Leningrad subway when I was eight. Luda was a twenty-year-old transplant from a small Ukrainian town…

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