Stephanie Carpenter is the author of the novel Moral Treatment, inaugural winner of the Summit Series Prize from Central Michigan University Press. Her first book, Missing Persons: Stories, won the 2017 Press 53 Award in Short Fiction.
Her work has been published in journals including Copper Nickel, Ecotone, The Missouri Review, Big Fiction, Crab Orchard Review, and Witness. Her completed manuscript, “Many and Wide Separations: Two Novellas” explores two very different models of women’s empowerment and creative expression in mid-nineteenth-century New England. The work is represented by Isabelle Bleecker at Nordlyset Literary Agency.
A native of Traverse City, Michigan, Stephanie earned a BA in English from Williams College, an MFA in Fiction from Syracuse University, and a PhD in English with Creative Writing emphasis from the University of Missouri. She’s been awarded research fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society and the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, as well as a Tennessee Williams Scholarship to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She’s the grateful recipient of residencies from the Hambidge Center, Ragdale, I-Park, Monson Arts, the Studios at Key West, the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow, and Dickinson House, among others.
Stephanie is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Michigan Technological University. She lives with her partner Tim and their delightful cats in Hancock, Michigan.
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