Sophia DuRose

Sophia DuRose is an eighteen year old writer from Orlando, FL, with a steadfast determination to pursue her love for writing. She is a member of the Florida State Poets Association and has completed a 180 hour MFA level poetry course, on scholarship with 'Twelve Chairs.' Every extracurricular activity she does is dwarfed in magnitude by her love for writing and reading, as well as her ambition to be the best artist she can be. Currently, she is studying for her degree at the University of Pennsylvania.

And

Sophia DuRose says it loud and clear in her essay “And.” She refuses to be labeled, having learned a lesson of discrimination against her Jewish faith when she was a teenager. Rather than taking the opinions of others at face value, she writes that we must “create our own opinions of worthiness and self-assurance.” Taking a line from Maya Angelou as her axiom, Sophia DuRose will, “like the air,” rise.
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