Sophia Veltfort

THIS VITAL ABSENCE out from @DeepVellum in November 2026 | teaching Creative Writing at Yale

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Praise for THIS VITAL ABSENCE, Sophia Veltfort’s brilliant debut novel, an “unforgettable” metafiction of paternity and responsibility.

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Deep Vellum authors at the Texas Book Festival!

Find us in downtown Austin, November 14-15, with all your other favorite presses!

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Available November 10th, 2026 — THIS VITAL ABSENCE by Sophia Veltfort, a novel about inheritance, responsibility, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive.

[Sophia Veltfort @SVeltfort]

Over many moons to be working with Jill Meyers and the @DeepVellum / A Strange Object team to publish my first novel, THIS VITAL ABSENCE!!! So many thanks to Julie Flanagan for making this happen!!!

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THIS VITAL ABSENCE, the spiky and subversive debut novel by Sophia Veltfort, has been acquired by Deep Vellum and A Strange Object for publication in November, 2026.

[Sophia Veltfort @SVeltfort]

Could not possibly be more excited to celebrate the publication of this masterpiece, which is beautiful and gutting and funny in the best of ways!!!

[Jami Nakamura Lin @jaminlin]

six months ago Jamila Minnicks preformed a chapter of MOONRISE OVER NEW JESSUP at sewanee from memory and ever since then I have been waiting for this book to come out!! Happy pub day, @lionesstales !

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@lilyjmeyer @sarahburnes @uberjam @AStrangeObject @DeepVellum !!❤️!!✨!!🎉!!🎊!!❤️!!❤️!!❤️!!

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@girl_hermes Perhaps the past imperfect?

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So thrilled and grateful to have “Queen of the Dryads” appear in @TheSchooner, a journal I’ve loved and admired for many years!

[Prairie Schooner @TheSchooner]

Among the tremendous short fiction pieces in our newest issue is Sophia Veltfort's "Queen of the Dryads". A piece with one foot in the absurd, this story reflects on life's shortcomings and our hopes and fears around whether we've lived it as fully as we could have.

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Many thanks to @sukrungruang and @happiestwerther, in whose @kenyonreview 2021 Fiction Workshop I first drafted the story this summer, and to the rest of my KR workshop for reading that early draft!

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I’m so excited to have a piece in the @PigeonPagesNYC nest and grateful to @aclairebuckley for editing “HOW EASY IT IS TO LEAVE” with such care and attention!

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“When we graduate, when we move in together, when he puts my name on his car insurance, I don’t forget the part of me folded away in an old college dorm room, but I don’t retrieve her, either.”

New in the nest from @SVeltfort (🎨: Cecilia Biagini)

https://t.co/69zKGATLYD

[Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at ASU @ASUCollegeOfLaw]

Joshua C. Macey (@UChicagoLaw) and Matthew R. Christiansen (@FERC) are the recipients of the 2022 Morrison Prize presented by @ASU_LAS. Bestowed with the award last year, Macey is the first professor to win the prize twice. https://t.co/tJbaTKtXT2

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@kellyrosehoffer @LightscatterP1 !!🎉❤️🌊🏝🐋 (weirdly could not find an undershore emoji so had to approximate) ❤️❤️❤️🐋❤️

[AlaskaQuarterlyReview @AQReview]

“Claire didn’t know what to tell the doll about the phenomenology of belonging.”

Read “Taking Things” by @SVeltfort from Winter/Spring 2017:

https://t.co/WVsYpbwdgR

[Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at ASU @ASUCollegeOfLaw]

@Maceyjoshua is ASU Law’s 2021 Morrison Prize winner, honored as author of the most impactful sustainability-related legal academic article published in NA during the prior year. More on Macey’s Zombie Energy Laws paper & hear from ASU Law Prof. Troy Rule. https://t.co/UQ4uAYlrp7

[Sophia Veltfort @SVeltfort]

Thank you so much to @suziewritenow and the @meridianuva team for nominating “Gingersnaps” for a Pushcart! It was a joy and a boon to work with you, and I’m so grateful to see my story appear with such wonderful pieces

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We are so excited to announce our Pushcart nominees this year: Monica Fields (@MonicaJFields), Christopher Linforth, Wendy Noonan, Megan Pinto, Josh Rolnick (@joshrolnick), and Sophia Veltfort (@SVeltfort)! Wishing you all congratulations, luck, and a safe holiday season ahead!

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@EnglishCornell’s own @kellyrosehoffer!

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The brilliant @kellyrosehoffer is a FINALIST IN THE 2020 NATIONAL POETRY SERIES!!! https://t.co/MFQD11eujD