Alison Stine

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Alison Stine
BornJan. 25, 1978
OccupationWriter
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Educationuniversity
Alma materOhio University, Denison University, University of Maryland
Genre poetry, fiction, nonfiction, essay
Years active1997-present
Notable worksRoad Out of Winter
Notable awards Philip K. Dick Award
Children1
Website
www.alisonstine.com

Alison Stine is an American poet and author whose first novel Road Out of Winter won the 2021 Philip K. Dick Award. [1] Her poetry and nonfiction has been published in a number of newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Paris Review , and Tin House .

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Life

Stine was born in rural Indiana and raised in Mansfield, Ohio, [2] but spent most of her adult life in Appalachia in southern Ohio, [2] a setting which she says heavily influences her writings and her life. [3] [4] Stine has been partially deaf since birth. [5] She now lives in Colorado.

Stine worked as an academic for a number of years, previously serving as the Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College, [6] and has taught at Fordham University, Grand Valley State University, Denison University, and Ohio University. She is also a former child actor and her plays have been performed at the Cleveland Playhouse, [7] the International Thespian Festival, and Off-Broadway for Stephen Sondheim's Young Playwrights Inc. Urban Retreat. [8]

Writings

Stine regularly writes The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Guardian , and other publications. Her poetry has been published in a number of literary journals including AGNI Online, Poetry, and Prairie Schooner , while her nonfiction has appeared in Phoebe, Santa Clara Review, Sycamore Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review . Her short fiction has been published in journals and magazines including Antioch Review, Paris Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Swink, and Tin House.

Her essay "On Poverty," a commentary on classism in the writing world published in 2016 in the Kenyon Review, went viral. [4]

Her first novel, Road Out of Winter, focuses on working-class women in rural Ohio dealing with climate change in a post-apocalyptic landscape [9] in what Library Journal says "blends a rural thriller and speculative realism into what could be called dystopian noir." [10] The novel won the 2020 Philip K. Dick Award.

Education

Bibliography

Novels and fiction

Collections of poetry

Anthologies

Awards

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References

  1. ↑ "2021 Philip K. Dick Award Winner Announced". 2 April 2021. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
  2. 1 2 "The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Alison Stine," The Rumpus, September 23, 2020
  3. ↑ "Smoke & Mirrors with Alison Stine" by Sara Lippmann, Smokelong Quarterly, March 23, 2020.
  4. 1 2 "Positively Un-Precious: The Writing Practice of Alison Stine" by Mary Ryan Karnes, Spine Magazine, accessed April 4, 2021.
  5. ↑ "I Am Partially Deaf and I Write to Be Heard" by Alison Stine, Catapult, Sept. 10, 2020.
  6. ↑ The Faculty Notebook, Vol. IX, Number 2, December 2004.
  7. ↑ "Audition: On Alison Stine" by David Baker, The Kenyon Review, Vol. 21, No. 3/4 (Summer - Autumn, 1999)
  8. ↑ "Home". youngplaywrights.org.
  9. ↑ "8 books you should read instead of 'Hillbilly Elegy'" by Lorraine Berry, The Los Angeles Times, Nov. 19, 2020.
  10. ↑ "Review of Road Out of Winter" by William Grabowski, Library Journal, July 01, 2020.
  11. ↑ "The Brittingham & Felix Pollak Prizes in Poetry," Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, accessed April 4, 2021.
  12. ↑ "2005 Wallace Stegner Fellows named" Standford Report, June 8, 2005.
  13. ↑ "2008 Ruth Lilly Fellowship Winners Announced: $75,000 in prizes awarded to five young poets," Poetry Foundation, September 2, 2008.
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