Sonja Livingston is the author of four books, including the forthcoming essay collection, The Virgin of Prince Street: Expeditions into Devotion, and the memoir, Ghostbread, which won the AWP Prize for Nonfiction. Her essays have garnered prizes from The Iowa Review, Arts & Letters, and NYFA, and appear in such outlets as Salon, Sojourners, and The Rumpus. Sonja is an associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.