Sophie Hamel is a French writer living in Los Angeles. She's a 2024 PEN/Robert J. DAU nominee for her short story Treasure published in The Summerset Review, a 2024 PEN Emerging Voices Workshop LA alumna, and a reader for the Adroit Journal. Her debut novel UNEARTHED is currently being reviewed by agents.

 

A former archaeologist with a Master’s degree of the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East from La Sorbonne and a postgraduate diploma from the Institute of Higher Studies in Art (IESA), Paris, she participated in numerous excavation campaigns in France and the Middle East, took a dive into the Indian contemporary art world while in Bangalore, before becoming a faculty manager for an online art school in Los Angeles.