About Me
Based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Sonya specializes in features about ice hockey, cycling,
mountain biking and other outdoor sports. She thrives on variety and has written about
bowling, women's professional football, soccer, and hang gliding. She also enjoys athlete and professional
profiles and interviews, her highest profile being Hockey Hall of Fame-er Bobby Orr, followed by UFC pro Keith
Jardine, the "Dean of Mean" and cycling team Astana's Chris Horner.
She's been a full-time freelance writer since 2004, with
features published in
Women's Health,
The Hockey News, and
Rugby Magazine and is a frequent contributor
to
Albuquerque The Magazine. Sonya wrote her first short story,
Till and Dill Go to the Moon,
when she was nine. Branching into poetry in her early teens, she ultimately chose non-fiction.
With a passion for participatory journalism, Sonya has mountain biked since
1997 and played co-ed hockey since 1998 (first inline, now ice). She's been a USA Hockey official since 2001.
Sonya began road cycling after winning a Trek bike in a Tour de France sweepstakes
(see
Women's Health, July/August 2007).
She was also featured in "Women Who Move" in the March/April 2007 issue of
Her Sports + Fitness.
When time and funding allow, Sonya designs her travels to include sports events, for example flying to
eastern Canada and catching some level of hockey on a semiannual basis, and attending the Tour de Georgia in 2005
and the Giro d' Italia in 2006.