SOPHIE STROHMEIER
I am a writer, translator, and amateur illustrator from Vienna based in New York City.
FICTION & PLAYS
Küss Mich, Libussa -- novel, edition a, October 2013 (in German)
English translation of one excerpt, “Visiting the Snow Queen” by Emma Rault, published in Queen Mob’s Tea House, Spring 2017
The Birch Trees -- short story, Joyland Magazine, November 2023
The Third and Other Harry -- short story, The Missouri Review, January 2023
The Perverts -- (30 minute play) staged reading produced by UA Theatre and Dance, Spring 2019
Lady Bluebeard -- short story, Bosie Magazine, Winter 2019
There Are No Happy Loves -- chapbook by Two Trick Pony Press, September 2018
previously published in Apofenie, Spring 2018
In the Catskills -- fiction excerpt, in Emerge: 2016 Lambda Fellows Anthology,
Spring 2017 - watch a video of reading
Those Smarting Stars -- short story, Broad! Magazine, Winter 2015
Die Fürst -- short story, published in The Gap, issue No. 142, March 2014 (in German)
Podrugi -- short story in wtf!-magazine’s Erotica Collection, ed. by Amira Ben Saoud, 2012
(in German)
SELECT PUBLISHED ESSAYS
Séances with Sisi at Kenyon Review, June 2023
The Music of Tár at WQXR.org, March 2023
Pants Roles: Gender Fluidity and Queer Undertones in Opera at WQXR.org, June 2022
The Creative Brilliance of Louise Fitzhugh: On Sometimes You Have to Lie by Leslie Brody: essay in Lambda Literary Review, Fall 2021
Wagnerism Grapples with Richard Wagner’s Complex Legacy:
essay in Lambda Literary Review, Fall 2020
Trumps Chance: essay in Datum Magazin, Spring 2020
Fingerplay and Handmaidens: essay in Lambda Literary Review, November 2016
Wo bleiben die Lesben?: essay in DerStandard, November 2013 (in German)
EDITORIAL EXPERIEMCE
Contributing writer/film reporter for FM4 radio website, Vienna, 2014-2015
Contributing writer for Sissy Magazin, Berlin, 2014-2015
Contributing writer for The Gap magazine and website, Vienna, 2014
FILM BLOG
Women’s Prison films, 2014