About
Sofi Stambo is the winner of the 2024 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing for her collection of short stories, A Bunch of Savages, to be published in spring 2026.
Stambo won LitMag’s Virginia Woolf Award for short fiction in 2024. She was also awarded the first prize in fiction in the 2015 Dzanc Books/Disquiet International literary contest, and the second prize in 2016 No Tokens fiction contest. Stambo was selected by WIGLEAF for their 2016 best flash top list. One of her stories was nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2018. Her novel All In was a finalist for the LANDO award from The de Groot Foundation in 2023.
She has been published by Promethean, Ep;phany, The Kenyon Review, The MacGuffin, New Letters, Fourteen Hills, New England Review, Stand, American Short Fiction, Guernica, Agni, Chicago Quarterly Review, Granta Bulgaria, Tin House. Another Chicago Magazine, and BLR.
Interview by ELLE Bulgaria.
Interview by American Short Fiction.