Sophie Mayer is a writer and educator. She studied and taught English literature and film studies at the universities of Cambridge and Toronto, and taken part in the poetry performance and publication scenes in both of those cities, as well as in London, where she now lives. She is a Commissioning Editor for queer literary journal Chroma and is one of the "new lyric poets" included in Andy Brown's anthology The Allotment. She blogs about literature for the English PEN Online Atlas, where she is a moderator, as well as writing regularly for Sight & Sound, Little White Lies and Vertigo about film, and for The F-Word, Venuszine and Shebytches about women and culture. She is the co-editor of There She Goes: Feminist Filmmaking and Beyond and the author of The Cinema of Sally Potter: A Politics of Love.