Sophia marie Sears

Once upon a time in the fifth grade, a little girl from California’s Bay Area told her mother and school principal— in an obstinate voice full of mulish finality— that she’d learned everything she needed to know, and she no longer needed to come to school. Such whimsy was appropriately warranted for a child who, already at that age, had reveled in the stories of her own imagination and fantasy so much more than her own teacher’s rhetoric.

In 2018, I graduated from Sonoma State University with honors and distinction from my English Department as I strode down the walkway to receive my B.A. in English and Secondary Teaching. I had accumulated over 80 hours of working with middle and high school students in the subject of Language Arts and their writing… but the constant pull, the eternal bonding thread that my heart ultimately desired to follow was, and has always been, the truth found within storytelling. 

I became a high school English and Kindergarten-8th grade tutor at local Bay Area tutoring agency in 2019, and I have been so blessed to receive a phenomenal experience where I am able to write and work with new minds and new ideas in the subject of literature and critical grammar. Evoking analogies with imagery, exposing the honestly perceived realities of a written character, and expressing the comparison of our senses and how we struggle with denying and fulfilling our own emotions can bring forth such insight to our world and the feelings we feel consumed by today. That is what I discovered in my school’s library as a naive elementary school student, and what I wish to share as an adventure with my students and readers. 

Within my own mind’s realm of daring adventure and imagination, words genuinely appear like magic spells arranged in intricate puzzles and symbols to derive meaning and emotion and magic. I love the Medieval, Regency, and Victorian time periods with their volatility and rigidity of social customs that beg to be broken, and I love teasing the boundaries of magic realism and spirituality to add an “otherness” or transcendental quality to my writing. I love romance and the tragedy of villains who implore a closer look, and I want to engage my readers with tears and laughter and giddy giggles that have their siblings shouting once again down the hall, “How can a book get you so excited?!” 

“Exaltat Humiles

Honor et Fides.”

He Exalteth the Lowly, Honor and Fidelity

“Worth is better than wealth,

Goodness better than nobility,

Excellence better than distinction.”

- Sears’ Clan, Ireland