About

YawnSonya S. Fehér is a writer and a mama living in Austin, Texas. She has an MFA in Creative Writing, a teaching certificate in Secondary English, and a Bachelor’s in English. She has worked as Program Director for the National Poetry Slam, Center Director at Sylvan Learning Center, an adjunct English professor, a high school English teacher, a standardized test grader, a blackjack dealer, a hostess, a cashier in a record store, a cashier in a bookstore, a dishwasher, and a babysitter. Really, this is an abbreviated work history. She was also on the 2000 Austin Poetry Slam Team, one of the most frustrating experiences of her life. Luckily, working as a mama and writing while her son sleeps have turned out to be exactly what she wants to be when she grows up.