Sophie Lewis is a writer. Her books,Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family,andAbolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation, have been translated into nine languages. Sophie grew up in France, half-British, half-German, but now lives in Philadelphia and teaches online courses on utopian theory at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. She also has a visiting affiliation with the Center for Research on Feminist, Queer and Transgender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She studied English Literature at Oxford University before pursuing graduate and postgraduate study in environmental theory, political science, and human geography, respectively at Oxford, the New School, and Manchester University. However, Lewis now counts herself an ex-academic. Although her writing still appears in journals likeFeminist Theory,TSQ,andSigns,she is making her living writing free-lance for magazines liken+1,Harper's, and theLRB, newspapers like theNew York Times, and art websites likee-flux.