Sophie Unterman is Head of the English Department at Frederick Douglass High School, where she has taught English since 2018. Originally from Kansas, she earned her B.A. in English and American Studies at Tulane and her M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction at Columbia University. Unterman has taught writing at Columbia, Lehman College-CUNY, and the University of New Orleans. Her essays have appeared in The Forward, The Iowa Review, Guernica, and The Toast. The recipient of a 2017 American Jewish Press Association Simon Rockower Award, Unterman is currently querying her manuscript, a collection of essays about her grandmother’s Holocaust survival story and her own Jewish identity. When she is not teaching or writing, Unterman can be found on the streetcar tracks training for her next marathon or in her kitchen, cooking and baking for her friends.
