The School of Creative Writing is pleased to congratulate Sofia Osborne, MFA. Sofia’s graduate thesis is a television series entitled Tiger Girls.
Sofia came to the School of Creative Writing with a background in environmental journalism and podcasting. Her award-winning journalism, personal essays, and fiction have been published in Maisonneuve, the Narwhal, the Tyee, the Dodge, and more. This summer, she also participated in the prestigious literary journalism residency at the Banff Centre, where she worked on a literary journalism project about the first Asian North American writer, Edith Eaton. In her time at UBC, she was able to dive into new genres and realized that television was the perfect medium to explore her own family’s story, one she had been trying to capture for years.
Sofia’s thesis, Tiger Girls, is a one-hour original television series following three generations of women in a Singaporean-Canadian family. Based on the experiences of her grandmother, her mother, and herself, Tiger Girls explores themes of diaspora, what it means to be a “good” girl, and the enduring and dangerous stereotypes surrounding Asian women. At the heart of Tiger Girls is the relationship between these women, all born in the “inauspicious” year of the tiger. As their stories unfurl, the viewer comes to understand this lineage of tiger women through the pasts that have shaped them and the things they are trying to escape.
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