Alison Stine is the author of a poetry chapbook, Lot of my Sister (Kent State University Press, 2001), winner of the Wick Prize. Her poetry and prose have appeared in The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The Antioch Review, Tin House, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Gulf Coast, Black Warrior Review, Crab Orchard Review, Fugue, Hayden’s Ferry Review and others. Her awards include scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, an Academy of American Poets Prize and two Pushcart Prize nominations. Formerly the Emerging Writer at Gettysburg College, she is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where she is completing her first novel.