Sophfronia Scott began her career as an award-winning magazine journalist for Time. Her first novel, All I Need to Get By, was nominated for best new author at the African American Literary Awards. She is the author of Unforgivable Love, Love’s Long Line, This Child of Faith: Raising a Spiritual Child in a Secular World, and The Seeker and the Monk: Everyday Conversations with Thomas Merton. (Broadleaf Books, 2021) She is the founding director of the MFA in Creative Writing program at Alma College in Michigan.

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