Dr Sophia Barnes is a professional editor and writer with over a decade of experience working with authors of fiction and memoir, including many who have been commercially published. She is co-author of the book Ezra Pound and Olga Rudge’s The Blue Spill: A Manuscript Critical Edition (Bloomsbury) and a regular contributor to the Sydney Review of Books and the Australian Book Review. Her writing has been published in several edited collections in Australia and internationally, and her fiction appears in publications including Kill Your Darlings, Seizure, Wet Ink and Stories of Sydney (Brio Books). Possessing both a Doctorate in English Literature and a Doctorate in Creative Arts, Sophia has taught a range of courses in literature and creative writing at The University of Sydney and Western Sydney University since 2013.