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M. Sophia Newman

M. Sophia Newman
M. Sophia Newman is a writer and medical editor from Chicago. As a health journalist, she reported from Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and France, and has received grants from the International Thomas Merton Society, Collegeville Institute, and the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting. In addition, Sophia has researched mental health in Bangladesh under a Fulbright fellowship and earned a certification in global mental health from the Harvard Program on Refugee Trauma.


So, Gutenberg Didn’t Actually Invent Printing As We Know It

On the Unsung Chinese and Korean History of Movable Type
June 19, 2019  By M. Sophia Newman
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First-Person Stories of the Body Are Much More Than Clickbait

In Praise of Narrative Medicine
October 26, 2017  By M. Sophia Newman
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Where Is Max Ritvo’s Heaven?

On the Death of a Young Poet and the Limits of Imagination
September 7, 2016  By M. Sophia Newman
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How a Self-Published Writer of Gay Erotica Beat Sci-Fi’s Sad Puppies at their Own Game

And What it Taught Me About Pushing through Writer's Block
August 26, 2016  By M. Sophia Newman
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On the Murder of Bloggers, and Bangladesh’s Greatest Living Writer

Tahmima Anam's Novels Offer Both Art and Activism
June 30, 2016  By M. Sophia Newman
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This Violent World: How
Literature Helps Us Cope

On learning from the writing of Aleksandar Hemon
April 12, 2016  By M. Sophia Newman
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