Bio

Sophie Haigney is the web editor at The Paris Review. She is freelance critic and journalist, who writes about visual art, books, technology, and other things. She is interested in objects, material culture, and collections; someone once described her beat as “a combination of the strange, fascinating, and mundane.” She writes frequently for The New York Times, and has also contributed to The New Yorker, Harpers, New York Magazine, The Guardian, The Economist, The Atlantic, Slate, The Nation, The Boston Globe, Art in America, The Financial Times, NPR, The Baffler, and many other publications. She is also a contributing editor at The Drift Magazine. She graduated from Yale University with a degree in English and from the University of Cambridge with an M.Phil in American Literature. In 2020, she was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. In 2021, she won the Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing, and was shortlisted for the International Awards for Art Criticism. She also won a Merit Award in Arts and Culture Reporting from the Silurians Press Club, for a story on how the pandemic shaped our relationships with objects. The Society of Features Journalists awarded her first place in arts commentary in 2021 for a portfolio of work that appeared in The New Yorker and The Nation. She is represented by Jackie Ko and Kristi Murray at The Wylie Agency.

Email: sophie [dot] haigney [at] gmail [dot] com