Sophie Jaff is a fourth generation South African who became an American citizen at the age of seven which qualified her for an unmitigated amount of student debt which she’ll be paying off till she’s seventy five.

She is also the bookwriter/lyricist for the children's musical A SHELTER IN OUR CAR, which the New York Times called a "poignant, sensitively written and buoyant show." It was produced in 2007 at Symphony Space in New York, and published by Boosey & Hawkes. It is due to be produced again in 2012, with a tour in New York and California.

She is an alumnus of the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at Tisch and is the recipient of the Frederick Loewe Foundation Grant for her musical STORY OF AN AFRICAN FARM written with Rob Hartmann.

Her work has been performed at The Library of Performing Arts, Lincoln Center, The Duplex and Goodspeed Musicals. Her first children's book THE ADVENTURES OF LULA THE DISCONTENTED COW was published in 2005 (Human & Rousseau). Other work includes her cabaret NOT THAT WE’RE BITTER written with Gaby Alter and her song cycle EVERYTHING. Her new musical ERIKA’S WALL will be produced by The Music Theatre Company in Chicago this July.

Sophie is a member of the Dramatists Guild and a Field’s Sponsored Artist. She is currently writing her first Harlequin novella and is working out how to get it published without her mother knowing.