Sophie Frances Kemp was born in Schenectady, New York, in 1996. She currently lives in Brooklyn. Her forthcoming novel, Paradise Logic, will be published in 2025 with Simon & Schuster in the US and Scribner in the UK. Her essays and fiction have appeared in The Paris Review, New York Magazine, Pitchfork, the Baffler, and GQ. She has taught on the writing program at Columbia University, where she also received her MFA.
‘When you are a female this is what happens: if you are not selected to be a mate by age twenty-seven, you are asked to get on the bus.’
Fiction by Sophie Frances Kemp.
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