Steve Fox

Fiction Writer

WI
Wisconsin US

Author's Bio

Steve Fox is the winner of the Rick Bass Montana Prize for Fiction, the Zona Gale Award for Short Fiction, The Great Midwest Writing Contest, the Jade Ring Award, the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters Fiction Contest, and the Midwestern Gothic Summer Flash Contest. His fiction has appeared in New Ohio Review, MQR, Whitefish Review, and others. His short-story collection, Sometimes Creek, was published by Cornerstone Press in January 2023 and received the 2023 American Book Fest Best Book Award, was a finalist for the Chicago Writers Association 2023 Book of the Year Award, and long-listed for the Edna Ferber Award. His next story collection, These Are My People (Cornerstone Press), published December 2025. Steve lives in Wisconsin with his wife, three boys, and one dog. 

Publications & Prizes

Books:
These Are My People (Cornerstone Press, 2025)
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Sometimes Creek (Cornerstone Press, 2023)
Prizes won: 

Rick Bass Montana Prize for Fiction

Jade Ring Award

Great Midwest Writing Contest

Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters Fiction Contest

Great Midwest Writing Contest

Midwestern Gothic Summer Flash Contest

Zona Gale Award for Short Fiction

American BookFest Best Book Award (Sometimes Creek)

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Julio Cortázar
What I'm reading now: 
Women in Their Beds by Gina Berriault, The Turnip Princess by Franz Xaver von Schönwerth
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Last update: Mar 23, 2026