Sophiya Sharma

Sophiya Sharma is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at Macquarie University. Originally from Punjab, North India, she writes about the transgender communities of her native region. Lately she has been trying her hand at fiction and literary criticism.

All essays by Sophiya Sharma

The Commute Essay: Sophiya Sharmaon migration

The Lore of Departure

Rurality and mobility are polarities within registers of logic that animate the new worlds of both women. Our protagonist wishes to retain both in the hope of dwelling perpetually in her personal landscape of myths as she journeys through myriad worlds. 
Mar. 2023 • • • •
Review: Sophiya Sharmaon Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri Bloomsbury
    176pp
    Published May 2021
    ISBN: 9781526629968

The Wanderer’s Tongue is a Coiled Serpent

Building on and breaking from more than a decade of writing, Lahiri’s Whereabouts (2021) is the product of a becoming which refracts life through the medium of a new linguistic lens.
Nov. 2021 •
Review: Sophiya Sharmaon Fariha Róisín
  • Like A Bird by Fariha Róisín Unnamed Press
    288pp
    Published September 2020
    ISBN: 9781951213091

Other Homes Are Possible

Róisín’s re-writing of the perpetual victim back into responsible and efficacious personhood is the resounding accomplishment of this novel.
May. 2021 •