SOPHIE MONKS KAUFMAN
Agent: Sarah Williams
Sophie Monks Kaufman is a writer and creative who uses art to make sense of primal experiences like sex, death and mental illness. She has worked as an arts journalist for a decade, contributing to outlets like BBC Culture, Hazlitt, Little White Lies, The Guardian, Empire magazine, Sight & Sound and Time Out London.
She collaborates frequently with the British Film Institute and in 2019 programmed a film season at BFI Southbank titled The Original Sin of Claire Denis.
Her first trade book, Wes Anderson (Close–Ups, Book 1), was published by HarperCollins in 2018 and was the highest seller of the series. She contributed a personal essay about sex and cinema to the 2020 anthology, She Found It At The Movies.
Beyond the world of print, she was the writer/director of a short film about grief, I Do Not Sleep (2017) and the producer/co–host of a bulimia podcast, Spill Your Guts (2016).
As is required for female authors living alone, Sophie has two cats – Sheba and Salem. They are supervising the writing of her biggest passion project to date.