Su J Sokol (xe/xyr) is a social rights activist and a writer of speculative and interstitial fiction. A former legal services lawyer from New York City, xe now makes Montréal xyr home.
Sokol is the author of three novels: Cycling to Asylum (2014), which was long-listed for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic and optioned for a film, Run J Run (2019), and Zee (2020), a finalist for the Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature.
Sokol’s short fiction and essays have appeared in various magazines and anthologies including in The Future Fire, Spark: A Creative Anthology, Glittership: an LGBTQ Science Fiction and Fantasy Podcast, After the Orange: Ruin and Recovery (B Cubed Press), Chronicling the Days, Amazing Stories, and Solaris. Les lignes invisibles, the French translation of Cycling to Asylum, was published in August 2022 by VLB Imaginaire.
You can find Su’s website at http://www.sujsokol.com/