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Sonia Iris Lozada
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America (the)
Genres: Commercial Fiction, Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Literary Fiction, General Fiction, Womens Fiction, Other Poetry, Short/Flash Fiction Collection
Skills: Speaking Engagement/Lecture, Reading/Literary Event, Press/Media Interview
Fostering truth and beauty in all its various modes—through riveting determination on stage and screen, through harmony of perspectives in podcasts, through deft eloquence of words on the poetic page—Sonia Iris Lozada inspires, dreams, fascinates, cracks a smile, and spurs the moment with verse and wit.
Sonia lives the many lives of the soul: out of one’s self-imposed limits, she discerns potential. Through her assorted poetry collections—Inspire me Series: Book 1 & 2 (2022), Inspire Me: Perception (2019), Follow Akashic Dreaming Through Time (2019), and Inspire Me: Raw (2017) Sonia weaves grace from loss, honesty from love, delicacy from the torn fabric of memory, and a persevering joy in the face of doubts. Her poems convey a broad spectrum of life’s yearnings. Yet the lilt of her voice never lapses: from the cascading effect of Spanish alongside English to the perceptive lessons of one’s soul in concert with one’s living, these poems dance to the tune of life’s multi-layered vibrations and never miss a step. Her forthcoming poetry collection, the triumphant third in the series, will bring the raw past and the perceptive eye toward a new vision: Inspire Me: Awakening Dreams.
Here we have an actor with an eye toward the real in the unreal, an actor who accentuates the subtlety of life in her various roles. With numerous acting credits across a range of genres, Sonia enlivens characters out of scripts into full-bodied beings and lures in the viewer at the same instant. Her roots dig deep through her parents to Puerto Rico and spread to the streets of Chicago where she was born. She brings this mixture of culture into a mixture of styles, humor with drama, a smile with a keen gaze, and steady timing in works such as Worlds Apart, season two of Bosch Legacy, the award-winning short Love in Time of Pandemic, Out of the Wild, and Expired. Her dynamism is electric.
After accomplishing so much in her diverse expressions of art, Sonia sought to cultivate the expressions of others in an exploratory mode. Through her Poetic Resurrection Podcast she speaks to those who have learned life’s hard lessons through experience, art, and teaching. These lessons become conversations of strength and acceptance, of seeing the long-term effects of beliefs on behaviors (Season 1), of essence in writing and living (Season 2), of the spectrum of life’s plentiful hues (Season 3), of self-actualization (Season 4), and of perseverance (Season 5). These lessons are not singular, certain, or prescribed; these are frames of thinking and thus handholds of living. In these podcasts you will find laughter and tears, hopes and doubts, ideals and realities—but always sustaining, always living, always a current of inward focus and outward breathing. These conversations are succor for life’s pains, and you will hear Sonia smile, again and again, through art, through life, through the prosodic music of words.
Sonia Iris Lozada's books
Inspire Me: Raw
In INSPIRE ME: RAW, Sonia Lozada reveals the unspoken hidden moments, speaking courage and faith for all to move on. Traveling through the lands of her life from Chicago to Los Angeles, Lozada’s unique bi-cultural perspective captures incidents and images of rough terrain with honesty and wry acceptance. As a singer and performer, she moves her words through the body and soul; and by giving a glimpse into our spirits’ reconciliation with difficult days, her deft words lighten all our paths.
Follow: Akashic Dreaming Through Time
n FOLLOW, Akashic Dreaming through Time, a poetry picture book, Sonia Iris Lozada captures the essence of many lifetimes through meditations and dreams. Every stanza emulates the traveling soul’s history. The individuals’ experiences from anger to forgiveness and acceptance which guides us home.
First stanza:
Fire burns tall in the kiln. Hues sway of saffron, cardinal, amber with hints of cobalt mesmerize as the salty drops from forehead—stings eyes. Hands bleed from the dryness of yellow clay creating blood henna. Craft soldiers for Emperor Qin Shi Huang—molding soldier’s figure, carve fine details. Body aches from laboring days, thoughts of children playing, yearning family. Outside the screams of whips upon the skin of convicts in this blistering purgatory. Death visited before thirty-eight years, my handmade tile—tombstone. Ask and it shall be given—silence. Yet, I followed.
Inspire Me: Perception
In INSPIRE ME: PERCEPTION, you will see poems which introduce you to the “Self” of Sonia Iris Lozada, and an invitation to explore your own “Self,” your own dreams and fascinations, your own regrets and hopes. In “Perception,” you will be introduced to the prodding of dreams in caressing breezes and the reverence of the day’s beginning.
Inspire Me Series: Book 1 & 2
Get inspired by the ethereal and emotive words of Sonia Iris Lozada. In her collection of Inspire Me Series: Book 1 & 2, immerse yourself in a world of Sonia's unique brand of poetry that is at once surreal, emotional, and dreamy.
Get inspired by the ethereal and emotive words of Sonia Iris Lozada. In her collection of Inspire Me Series: Book 1 & 2, immerse yourself in a unique brand of poetry that is surreal, emotional, and dreamy.
Inspire Me Series: Book 1 & 2, immerse yourself in a world of Sonia Iris Lozada’s unique brand of poetry that is at once surreal, emotional, and dreamy.
With each flip of the page, you'll be transported to a new realm of possibility, inspired to pursue your passions and reach for your wildest dreams.