Writer

Sofie Bird is a speculative fiction writer in Melbourne, Australia. She writes novels, short stories and game narratives, and has won prizes and placings in several national competitions, including the Alan Marshall Short Story competition. She is an accredited editor with a Bachelors in Creative Arts (Honours) and three Masters degrees: one in Computing Technology, one in Publishing and Communications, and one in Commerce, completed at the University of Melbourne, and RMIT. She also works as a freelance editor and technical writer.

Jeweller

Sofie began designing and creating jewellery when she was ten, inspired by her mother's gift of a beaded jewellery book. Sofie fell in love with the myriad colours, and her bead collection rapidly expanded to fill an entire chest of drawers. She ventured into beadweaving, polymer clay jewellery, took courses in lampworking, and later, when Precious Metal Clay emerged into the market, silversmithing and PMC techniques.  In 2005, she began her own label Davina Design, and has now sold numerous commissioned and non-commissioned pieces.

Programmer

Sofie began programming in QBASIC aged six, when her older brother taught her that variables were 'little suitcases' that held information. In 2007, she took her brother's imaginative teaching attitude to RMIT, where she taught beginners and intermediate Java, C, web programming, software engineering and database concepts while completing her Masters of Computing Technology. Sofie still teaches computer science at RMIT, and designs software for her own use as a writer and artist.