To Be Seen as a Woman

is a book of poetry about how a woman is seen, and how she would like to be seen. It looks at her interests, her passions, and the activities of her daily life in the light of what it means to be her, and what it means to be a woman. Sophia Marshall is a perceptual poet, characterized by her treatment of the senses. She has been compared to e.e. cummings, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, and Sappho. She is a credentialed journalist and music critic, as well as a poet, with credits in several jazz journals and other music publications, and she has published letters on politics in . She has a blog, The Flash Boston (theflashboston.com), covering Boston music and culture. She is a transgender woman. She lives in Boston.