Let’s connect: sophieaamado@gmail.com

I’ve gone by many titles: writer, editor, professor, content specialist, event planner. Overall, however, I’m a multi-skilled professional wordsmith, which means I put a lot of value on writing, storytelling, and keen proofreading and editing. In whatever work I do, I focus on providing polished content to achieve organizational goals and meeting relevant deliverables. Although I’m a creative, I’m hyper-organized. I rise to meet challenging occasions, love to learn new strategies (forever a student at heart), and have a desire to add value to an employer through proactive, results-oriented communication and organization, whether on or off the page. Writing is my passion and I hope you enjoy some of my publications on this site.

Third person bio: A proud Chicago native and Fulbright scholar (Madrid, Spain 2014-2015), Sophie Amado holds a BA in English and Spanish from the University of Iowa and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing from Columbia College Chicago. Here, she taught undergraduate creative writing and rhetoric and started editing for both Arcturus Magazine and Hotel Amerika. Sophie has interned with Folio Literary Management, the Iowa Youth Writing Project, and the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust, where she’s also serves as a docent at the Home and Studio in Oak Park since 2003. In 2017, she received a fellowship for creative nonfiction from the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA. Sophie has written and edited content for ConceptDrop, Groupon, National Louis University, and the University of Chicago. She founded and directs a recurring reading series in Chicago called Read Some Shit (Chicago Reader’s best reading series of 2021 and 2023).