Author
Stephanie Carpenter
Stephanie Carpenter holds an MFA from Syracuse University and a PhD in creative writing and American literature from the University of Missouri. Her first book, Missing Persons, won the 2017 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction and is appearing this fall. Her prose has been published in Witness, Nimrod, the Cossack Review, Big Fiction, the Crab Orchard Review, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing and literature at Michigan Tech University, in the northernmost reaches of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
CONTRIBUTIONS
Reviews
Jun 19 2020
Review: Marching On: Rereading Little Women and Louisa May Alcott
You likely know the plot of Louisa May Alcott’s 1868-9 novel, Little Women. Whether you’ve read the book or seen one of its adaptations to film or screen, you probably… read more
Reviews
Nov 27 2018
The End of the World as We Know It: Four Novels of Climate Change
Clade by James Bradley. Titan Books, 2015, 297 pp. $14.95 (paper). Beast by Paul Kingsnorth. Graywolf Press, 2016, 164 pp. $16 (paper). The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan. Hogarth, 2016,… read more
Fiction
Oct 31 2017
The Longest Night of the Year
Sex. That’s all Cameron had really wanted. Uncommitted, internet-facilitated sex and maybe a little conversation. But the woman he brought home—his online date, his supposed match—hasn’t emerged from his guest… read more