Background
A native of Germany, Raiziss grew up in Philadelphia. She was the daughter of Anna (Perper) and Doctor George W. Raiziss, a professor, at University of Pennsylvania.
A native of Germany, Raiziss grew up in Philadelphia. She was the daughter of Anna (Perper) and Doctor George W. Raiziss, a professor, at University of Pennsylvania.
She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, and she also studied at Columbia University and the Sorbonne.
She was a first cousin, twice removed, of actor Alexis Denisof. Raiziss" first work was published while she was in high school. She was an editor of Chelsea (magazine), from 1960–1994, with Ursule Molinaro, featuring poems and prose by Denise Levertov, Sylvia Plath, Umberto Eco, Raymond Carver, and Grace Paley.
She corresponded with Laura Riding, and David Finkel.
Her work appeared in American prefaces, The Atlantic, Beloit Journal. Granite, The Prairie Schooner, Plainsong, Virginia Quarterly Review, Yale Review.
She lived in Buckinghamshire County, Pennsylvania. She adopted a son, Peter Saint Mu Raiziss of Sacramento, California.
Sonia died in Manhattan.
Her Sinia Raiziss Giop Charitable Foundation (Alfredo de Palchi trustee) continues to fund the Jane Austen Essay Contest, Bordighera Prize, and the Raiziss/de Palchi.
As a member of the League of American Writers, she served on its Keep America Out of War Committee in January 1940 during the period of the Hitler-Stalin pact.