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Sonya mentors writing students privately, and teaches at Hugo House in Seattle and the Red Badge Project, where she developed a pilot writing program for women service members and veterans suffering from combat trauma and military sexual trauma. She is a guest lecturer at universities in North America, and is developing a program for healing trauma through writing. |
Sonya mentors writing students privately, and teaches at Hugo House in Seattle and the Red Badge Project, where she developed a pilot writing program for women service members and veterans suffering from combat trauma and military sexual trauma. She is a guest lecturer at universities in North America, and is developing a program for healing trauma through writing. |
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Sonya Lea (born January 12, 1960) is an American essayist, memoirist, film director, and screenwriter, based in Seattle.
Career
Lea has written Wondering Who You Are, (Tin House) a memoir about her husband losing the memory of their life. Wondering Who You Are was named a BBC Top Ten BookCite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page)., one of People Magazine's Smart New MemoirsCite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page)., and Oprah Magazine calls it "a memoir that reads like a thriller."Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page). In it, she explores memory and identity, and the impact that her husband's acquired brain injury had upon their relationship.
Her essays have appeared in Guernica, Salon, Brevity, The Butter, The Rumpus, The Southern Review, the Prentice Hall Reader, a college creative writing text, and more.
She wrote, directed and produced a short film, EVERY BEAUTIFUL THING, starring Lauren Weedman, and showing at film festivals in the USA. The film has won several awards for score, and features the Bob Dylan song, "Not Dark Yet," scored by Trey Gunn (King Crimson) and sung by Dylan Nichole Bandy.
Sonya mentors writing students privately, and teaches at Hugo House in Seattle and the Red Badge Project, where she developed a pilot writing program for women service members and veterans suffering from combat trauma and military sexual trauma. She is a guest lecturer at universities in North America, and is developing a program for healing trauma through writing.
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