A former television news producer and long-time member of the Society of Children's Books Writers and Illustrators, Trina has spent over a decade writing for a large audience.

Trina is a graduate of the prestigious liberal arts school, Columbia College Chicago--where she landed an internship and later a job at Fox News. Trina received her MA in British and American literature from Northern Illinois University where she nearly went blind reading hundreds of small print novels from the 18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries. After a horse bite, a black eye, and two grey hairs, she managed to pass a class appropriately abbreviated HEL--History of the English Language, where she was tortured with the nauseating task of transcribing Old and Middle English. By the end of the semester, she began speaking and looking like Yoda. She teaches writing composition and British literature at Kishwaukee College and Waubonsee Community College.


Trina Sotira is represented by Mark McVeigh of the McVeigh Agency.