Sofia Drummond-Moore is a writer born in Santa Fe, New Mexico to park ranger parents and grew up in National Parks around the U.S.
Sofia has a bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing from Knox College and a master’s degree in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute, where she was an Academy Nicholl Fellowship Quarterfinalist in 2018 and won the Writers Room Ready Award in 2019.
She was recently the winner of her category in the 2024 Big Break Final Draft Screenwriting Contest, a semi-finalist at Austin Film Festival 2024, as well as a finalist for the 2023 ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Award for her screenplay QUIET BODIES. Her screenplay CLY was nominated for 2022 Best Unproduced Screenplay by the Toronto International Women Film Festival.
Sofia primarily gets excited about drama, horror, and thriller stories with a specific interest in strange historical curiosities, LGBTQ+ stories, and those focused on female protagonists.
Her prose writing has previously appeared in Pithead Chapel, Waxwing, Cleaver Magazine, New Delta Review, and others. She has recently been nominated for a Pushcart for her story “Letting” published in Door Is A Jar Magazine.
Sofia has worked as an intern at Conner Literary, at Ghost House Pictures, and as a writers assistant to a prominent author, as well as an executive producer on a teen mystery series for streaming. She is currently a freelance writer available for prose and film.
Member of the Independent Writer’s Caucus: Profile here