God Sister

She is like a godmother to so many of the young, but she is a sister to women, she is a sister in a holy name, with the love and loyalty of a God sister.

Sophia Marshall has been compared to e.e. cummings, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, and Sappho. She has published forty books, including 36 poetry books, two books of stories, and two books of criticism. She is a credentialed journalist and music critic as well as a poet, with credits in many journals and magazines. She is also an author of fiction. She is a transgender woman. She lives in Boston.