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 Bachelors Degree in Creative Writing from Knox College and a Masters 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 also recently the winner of her category in the 2024 Big Break Final Draft Screenwriting Contest, a semi-finalist at Austin Film Festival 2024 and 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 X-R-A-Y Lit, Catch, Cellar Door and on the podcast Full Body Chills. Her work is upcoming in Waxwing Literary Magazine.
Sofia has worked as an intern at Conner Literary and Ghost House Pictures, as a writers assistant to a prominent author, and as an executive producer on a teen mystery series for streaming. She is currently a freelance writer for prose and film.