Alison Stine | |
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Born | Indiana, U.S. | January 25, 1978
Occupation | Writer |
Language | English |
Alma mater | Denison University (BA) University of Maryland (MFA) Ohio University (PhD) |
Genre | Poetry, fiction, nonfiction, essay |
Years active | 1997-present |
Notable works | Road Out of Winter (2020) |
Notable awards | Philip K. Dick Award (2021) |
Children | 1 |
Website | |
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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, The Paris Review , and Tin House .
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]
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 The Antioch Review , The 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.