Raised across continents in the noisy beauty of a borderless home, Sophia Katsaiti was born to a Sri Lankan and East African mother and a Greek father. Around the table sat Brown and White aunties, Black cousins, and friends of every colour. English yelled over Greek and overlapped with broken French while bursts of Sinhalese, Swahili and Creole flew around as jokes, insults and terms of affection. It was within this mixture that she first encountered both belonging and fracture, love and prejudice, light and shadow.

She began writing as a child, taping pages across her entire bedroom wall and climbing onto furniture to reach the highest corners. Once the pages were covered with stories, she would pull them down and bind them into makeshift books for friends. Music followed along with her elder brother and very first musical companion, Sebastian. These early offerings became her language of survival, her way of holding grief and turning it into prayer.

A nomad at heart, Sophia has walked through convent walls, city streets, Buddhist temples, firelit music circles, gatherings of Sufi mystics and countless border crossings in search of truth. Along the way her words have reached millions online and her voice has opened bridges into communities far beyond her own. Journal of the Soul is her first book.