Big Bio

Sofiya Pasternack is a mental health professional, the highly-distractible author of Jewish MG and YA fantasy, and prone to oversharing gross medical stories. She enjoys yapping ad nauseam about writing, both in live presentations and in videos posted to her YouTube channel. She is actually a gremlin in a bad wig. Her debut MG fantasy novel ANYA AND THE DRAGON is a 2019 Sydney Taylor Book Honoree for Middle Grade, and the follow-up, ANYA AND THE NIGHTINGALE, is a BookRiot Best Children’s Book of 2020! Find Sofiya online at www.sofiyapasternack.com or any social media platform @sofipasternack.

Small Bio

Sofiya Pasternack is a mental health professional, the highly-distractible author of Jewish MG and YA fantasy, and prone to oversharing gross medical stories. If you’re not careful, she’ll holler at you about how to use psychotherapy to improve character development. Find Sofiya online at www.sofiyapasternack.com or any social media platform @sofipasternack.

Interviews

with the Horn Book

​

with Mike Thayer

​

with Katia Raina

​

with Karen McCoy

​

with myself (as The Book Goat)

​