Sonya Vatomsky

Sonya Vatomsky is a writer living in Manchester, England.

Sonya was born in the Soviet Union and grew up in the Pacific Northwest, where they studied Linguistics and Finnish at the University of Washington. They are a member of the Horror Witers Association and have been published in Brave New Weird: The Best New Weird Horror; their nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and Smithsonian Magazine. In 2024, they were shortlisted for the PFD Queer Fiction Prize. They are the author of SALT IS FOR CURING, a poetry collection. UNDER A FUR COAT is their first novel.