Alison Stine

Poet, Fiction Writer, Creative Nonfiction Writer

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Colorado US
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Author's Bio

ALISON STINE is the author of the novel Trashlands (MIRA / HarperCollins), longlisted for the 2022 Reading the West Book Award, a finalist for the Ohioana Book Award, and longlisted for the 2022 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. Her first novel Road Out of Winter won the 2021 Philip K. Dick Award.

She is also the author of three poetry collections published on university presses and a novella. Her plays and musicals have been performed at the Cleveland Playhouse and Off-Broadway at the Trilogy Theatre. Her next novel Dust will be published by Wednesday Books (Macmillan) in 2024.

Literary agent: 
Eric Smith

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Anthology:
Literary Cash: Writings Inspired by the Lengendary Johnny Cash (BenBella Books, 2007)
Journals: ,
Santa Clara Review
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Sycamore Review
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The New York Times
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Washington Post

Fiction

Book:
Road Out of Winter (Harper Collins, 2020)
Journals: ,
Kenyon Review
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Paris Review
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Swink
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Tin House

Poetry

Anthologies:
Satellite Convulsions:Poems from Tin House (Tin House/Bloomsbury, 2008)
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Bedside Guide to the No-Tell Motel: 2nd Floor (No Tell Books, 2007)
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Shooting the Rat (Hanging Loose Press, 2003)
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Luna, Luna: Creative Writing Ideas from Spanish and Latino Literature (Teachers & Writers Collaborative, 1997)
Books: ,
Ohio Violence (University of North Texas Press, 2009)
Chapbook:
Lot of My Sister (Kent State University Press, 2001)
Prizes won: 

NEA Literature Fellowship, Ruth Lilly Prize from the Poetry Foundation, Wallace Stegner Fellowship, Philip K. Dick Award, Ohio Arts Council Grant, National Geographic reporting grant, Studs Terkel Award for Media and Journalism, Brittingham Prize, Vassar Miller Prize, Wick Poetry Chapbook Prize, Sustainable Arts Grant.

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Disabled, LGBTQ
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Raised in: 
OH
Ohio
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Last update: Feb 11, 2023