Sophie van Llewyn grew up in south-eastern Romania, but she now lives in Germany. Her debut fiction book Bottled Goods, published by Fairlight Books in July 2018, was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019, the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2019 and the People’s Book Prize 2018. The book has been translated into Italian and Romanian, and is published in North America by HarperCollins.

Sophie started as a flash fiction writer. Her short prose has been published in various publications, such as New Delta Review, Ambit, Litro, New South Journal, Banshee, The Lonely Crowd and many others. She has also won or been listed for a number of competitions, including the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction and Best of the Net. She was a co-editor of the 2020 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology Root, Branch, Tree.