stacia in a nutshell.

Stacia was born in Lansing, MI. She grew up in Baltimore, MD–the county, not the city. (Only other Baltimoreans will truly understand why it’s necessary to make that distinction. Everyone else just keeps asking if she lived by where they used to film The Wire, then gets genuinely bummed out when she says no.) She graduated from Trinity College (now Trinity Washington University) in DC, with a BA in English that didn’t really help her land any jobs. (Don’t let them hype you on college as a golden ticket to employment, kids, because… not so much.) She worked a few office gigs and got some pieces published in niche print and online periodicals (all non-fiction. Book reviews and Q&As, that kind of thing).

At 27, she finished an MFA in fiction at Sarah Lawrence College. She is an adjunct writing professor in Grand Rapids, MI and barely remembers her name by the end of the day, let alone all her email addresses, passwords, and office/classroom keys.

At various turns, she’s written for The Backlist, Black Issues Book Review, and Mosaic Magazine. Right now, she writes for PostBourgie. In 2007, she won the Zora Neale Hurston-Bessie Head Fiction Award for a short story titled, “A Revolution Like Vinyl.” She was writing a novel tentatively titled, Nine: A Half-life. She scrapped that. Now, she’s working on a novel precariously called, Maranatha. She also wrote a really complicated memoir that was roundly rejected. You’ll find excerpts from each here, among other miscellaneous things.

Her short story, “Be Longing,” was selected for publication in It’s All Love: Black Writers on Soul Mates, Family, and Friends (Doubleday/Harlem Moon 2009), edited by Marita Golden.

Stacia kind of adores your feedback, so keep it coming.