Sofia Vaisman Maturana

Sofia Vaisman Maturana was born in Santiago, Chile in 1993. Poet and Doctor in Music Composition from King’s College London. Holds a diploma in Creative Writing from Universidad Diego Portales. In 2015, she published Pasillos de tiempos precoces (Planeta de Papel, Chile), a collection of poems about the transition to adolescence; and in 2018, No le pongamos nombre a lo nuestro (Puntos Suspensivos Ediciones, Argentina), a poetry collection exploring her identity as a lesbian woman. She translated Judy Grahn’s A Woman is Talking to Death into Spanish (Editorial Monada, Argentina, 2024), and is about to publish Las Elegidas (Profana Press, London, 2025). She co-founded the women’s orchestra One Orchestra New in London, where she’s currently based. Much of her work as a composer focuses on setting poetry written by women to music.