Cycling to Asylum

Su J. Sokol is an activist, a cyclist, and a writer of interstitial fiction. A former legal services lawyer from New York City, Sokol immigrated to Montréal in 2004 and works as a social rights advocate. Sokol is the author of three novels: Cycling to Asylum (2014), which was long-listed for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, Run J Run (2019), and Zee (2020), a finalist for the Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature. Sokol's short fiction and essays have appeared in various magazines and anthologies including in The Future Fire, Spark: A Creative Anthology, Glittership: an LGBTQ Science Fiction and Fantasy Podcast, After the Orange: Ruin and Recovery (B Cubed Press), Chronicling the Days and Amazing Stories.