Sophia Bonoan is a writer and storyteller from Manila. She graduated from the Ateneo de Manila University in 2019 with a BFA in Creative Writing, was a fellow in the 23rd Ateneo Heights Writers’ Workshop, and won a Loyola Schools Award for the Arts for fiction. Her short stories have been published in HEIGHTS Ateneo, TAYO Literary Magazine, and Big Deal. In 2019, she self-published her first collection of short stories, Even in Sunlight, Ghosts Linger.
She has worked as the Editorial Assistant at CLAVEL Media, writing features on various Filipino creatives and press releases for local art, music, and entertainment, and also worked as a copywriter under the creative agency BoyBrightBoy Multimedia Corporation and as a contributing writer for Smart Communications. She currently works as a content writer for Ayima.