She has written for Rolling Stone, Outside, High Country News and The Washington Post on subjects related to the American West.
"[8] Sottile won first place in a Society of Professional Journalists 2015 competition for the Willamette Week article "The Newest Portlanders".
[10] While on staff with The Inlander, Sottile won the Washington State 2011–2012 Mental Health Reporting Award for "The People Left Behind," which features "an in-depth exploration of a 13-year-old's death by suicide and the broader issues of mental health and suicide-prevention in Spokane and the Inland Empire".
She also won third place in a Society of Professional Journalists 2010 competition for "Blood Sport," an article on backyard wrestling in Spokane.
[11] Sottile was also a guest on KUOW-FM programming, where she talked about an article she wrote for Outside about a Bigfoot sighting by Bob Gimlin.