Jeddie Sophronius is a Chinese-Indonesian writer from Jakarta and the author of several poetry collections: Happy Poems & Other Lies (Codhill Press, 2024), Interrogation Records (Gaudy Boy, 2024), Love & Sambal (The Word Works, 2024), and the chapbook Blood·Letting (Quarterly West, 2023).

He received his B.A. in English: Creative Writing at Western Michigan University and his M.F.A. from the University of Virginia, where he served as the editor of the MFA-run annual literary journal, Meridian. He taught undergraduate writing composition and poetry literature courses at the University of Virginia as a Lecturer in English during the 2022-2026 academic year.

Their work has received support from the Sundress Academy for the Arts, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Gunnar Gunnarsson Institute, and others. The recipient of the 2023 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize and the 2025 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry, their poems have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, The Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere.

Born in Jakarta and raised in Perth, they have been dividing their time between the U.S. and Indonesia for more than a decade. Jeddie is currently a PhD student in English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.