Sophia Tarin is a poet, educator, librarian, and archivist. She teaches writing courses at Adelphi University and works in the New York Public Library’s Vartan Gregorian Center for Research in the Humanities. Her poetry has been published in Funicular Magazine, Little Patuxent Review, Phantom Drift, and Des Pair Books. She is the recipient of the 2021 Donald Everett Axinn Award for poetry. She served as the museum administrator of the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association in 2020 to 2021 and archival intern at the Coney Island Museum in 2023. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Adelphi University and is working towards an MA in the History of Art and Design and an MS in Library and Information Science at Pratt Institute.