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Sophia Shalmiyev(a)

@sshalmiyev

Feminist. Ball Buster. Immigrant. Author of MOTHER WINTER @simonbooks @thebookgrp ⭐️USSR-Brooklyn-Olympia-Portland⭐️

 Portland, OR
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It is a brutal red winter of our feminine discontent; our bodies left out in the cold. Here’s to the cover crop of crones, hags, dykes, witches, and killjoys who went hoarse screaming out for a revolution at every door that was shut in their crimson faces guernicamag.com/letters-to-m… – at Portland, OR

Letters to Mothers: Crones, Hags, Witches, and Killjoys

Mother’s Day is a joke we are all in on, and yet it continues—straight-faced, deadly serious, and poisoned.

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The Oregonian@Oregonian25 Apr 2022
A $10,000 award sets off angst, outrage in Portland’s literary community trib.al/0phi92L
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A $10,000 award sets off angst, outrage in Portland’s literary community oregonlive.com/books/2022/04…
A $10,000 award sets off angst, outrage in Portland’s literary community

A $10,000 award sets off angst, outrage in Portland’s literary community

After Literary Arts announces a prestigious career fellowship for Portland poet Carl Adamshick, some raise questions about expenditures at the nonprofit publisher he once ran.

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The sheets - Survivor Lit

The sheets - Survivor Lit

I experienced my childhood rape as a death.

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PSU Creative Writing@CreativeWrPSU24 Sep 2020
Join us on Friday at 7pm PT to kick off a new season of Filament, feat. PSU MFA alum Sophia Shalmiyev @sshalmiyev (MOTHER WINTER) + readings by current MFA students! Zoom link: pdx.zoom.us/j/96458399569
Flyer for the Filament Reading Series event on Sept 25 at 7pm.

ALT Flyer for the Filament Reading Series event on Sept 25 at 7pm.

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Amy Berkowitz@amyberko23 Sep 2020
Jeannie's book is called Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl and it really does feel like a "literary feminist miracle," which is what @sshalmiyev called it. tinhouse.com/book/things-we-…
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Stoked!!! – at Portland, OR
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(((David Naimon)))@DavidNaimon3 Sep 2020
For a book that opens "I already predict failure" I can't think of one that takes more risks-formally, personally, politically-that risks being wrong to get her story right, a book @sshalmiyev calls a "literary feminist miracle" Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/jeannie… @carmenmmachado
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BOMB Magazine@BOMBmagazine24 Aug 2020
"I don’t know if vulnerability was something I earned, only something I realized would kill me if I did not embrace it." —Cooper Lee Bombardier Gender is Not a Contest Anyone Can Win: @CooperLeeB Interviewed by @sshalmiyev bombmagazine.org/articles/co…
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Dottir Press@dottirpress24 Aug 2020
@CooperLeeB interviewed in-depth by @sshalmiyev: "To me, success means living my life with as little compromise to my integrity as possible, while being as much of my full self in as many aspects of my life as I can." #PassWithCare #transmemoir
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Gender is Not a Contest Anyone Can Win: Cooper Lee Bombardier Interviewed - BOMB Magazine ⁦@CooperLeeB⁩ ⁦@BOMBmagazine⁩ ⁦@dottirpress⁩ ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ bombmagazine.org/articles/co…
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Gender is Not a Contest Anyone Can Win: Cooper Lee Bombardier Interviewed - BOMB Magazine ⁦@CooperLeeB⁩ ⁦@BOMBmagazine⁩ ⁦@dottirpress⁩ ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ bombmagazine.org/articles/co…
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Also good news: this means more Maya Rudolph!
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AIDA@shutupaida11 Aug 2020
maya rudolph bout to eat eat
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Long ago. Reset.
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I need a social media and phone break. Want to show this baby about to turn twelve how to be more connected to him and his sister. It’s gonna suck. Byeeeeeee. instagram.com/p/CDIXtdZh5ZD/…
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