Stephanie Dickinson
Stephanie Dickinson raised on an Iowa farm now lives in New York City with the poet Rob Cook and their senior citizen feline, Vallejo. Her novels Half Girl and Lust Series are published by Spuyten Duyvil, as is her feminist noir Love Highway. Other books include Heat: An Interview with Jean Seberg (New Michigan Press), Flashlight Girls Run (New Meridian Arts Press), and The Emily Fables. She received distinguished story citations in Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays and numerous Pushcart anthology citations. Her stories have been reprinted in New Stories from the South, New Stories from the Midwest, and Best American Nonrequired Reading. In 2020 she won the Bitter Oleander Poetry Book Prize and TBO has brought out Blue Swan/Black Swan: The Trakl Diaries. Her Razor Wire Wilderness, a true crime memoir, based on her longtime correspondence with inmates at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton, NJ, is forthcoming from Kallisto Gaia Press, and launches June 1. To support the holy flow, she has long labored in the cubicle world and since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, she has worked remotely from the sanctity of her 5th floor walk-up. Along with Rob Cook, she edits Rain Mountain Press.
