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Stacy Bierlein [1]

Listed as: 
Fiction Writer
Public address: 
Laguna Beach, CA
California US
Email: 
bierleinCA@gmail.com
Bio: 

Stacy Bierlein is the author of the story collection A Vacation on the Island of Ex-Boyfriends (Elephant Rock Books, 2012) and a co-editor of the short fiction anthology Men Undressed: Women Writers and the Male Sexual Experience (OV Books/Dzanc Books, 2011). Her award-winning anthology of international fiction, A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection, was used in university classrooms across the country. She was a founding editor for two independent presses, Other Voices Books and Emerald Bay Books. As an editor, advisor, and manuscript consultant she has worked with more than 200 writers in the United States and abroad. 

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Favorite authors: 
Grace Paley, Alice Walker, Donald Barthelme, Terry Tempest Williams, Jhumpa Lahiri, Joy Harjo, Pam Houston, Zadie Smith, Lorrie Moore, Oliver Sacks, Elizabeth McCracken, Etgar Keret, Samrat Upadhyay, Aimee Bender, Brit Bennett, Laila Lalami, Peggy Orenstein, Alice Munro, Francesca Marciano, Miranda July, Katie Kitamura, Ocean Vuong
Twitter/X: 
@StacyBierlein
Born in: 
MI
Michigan
Prizes won: 

Gold Line Press Chapbook Award, finalist 2022; Black River Chapbook Competition, semi-finalist 2021; Nobby Award for First Fiction (story collection, A Vacation on   the Island of Ex-Boyfriends), 2012; Independent Publisher’s Literary Fiction Award (anthology, A Stranger Among Us), 2009; IPPY Award, gold medal fiction, (anthology, A Stranger Among Us), 2008

What I'm reading now: 
The Art of Revision: The Last Word by Peter Ho Davies
Writers Retreats: 
Fine Arts Work Center Summer Workshop Program
Ragdale
Identifies as: 
European American
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Children
Parents
Schools
Teachers
Teenagers

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