WRITER & EDUCATION ACTIVIST
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Stephanie King was raised in the middle of nowhere in upstate New York and has since lived in several different states and attended or worked at numerous colleges. She currently lives in Philadelphia with her historian husband and their two children.
Her stories have won the Quarterly West Novella Prize and the Lilith Short Fiction Prize, and have also appeared in Loch Raven Review, Lumen, Entropy, and Every Day Fiction. Her education eriting has appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer and The Typescript. She received her MFA in Writing & Literature from Bennington College, and currently serves on the board of the Philadelphia Writers’ Conference. |
SHORT STORIES & EDUCATION WRITING
THE WEIGHT OF EXPECTANCYPipes banged and hissed as I heard the last of my heat fading away. The wood furnace was losing pressure fast and I knew soon there would not be enough water in the pipes to circulate heat...
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EVEN PLUTO'S ORBIT CROSSES WITHINGiselle’s funeral was awkward enough, but things got even tougher after the neighbor kid claimed that the two of them had switched.
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THE WHITE KINDERGARTNERS? On a sunny autumn morning, their little faces shine with hope. Shirts are neatly pressed and the pleats of skirts are a knife’s edge. It’s the first day of kindergarten.
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