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Bio

Born next to a popcorn farm and raised in rural Ohio, Alison Stine is a writer, editor, and artist. Her first novel Road Out of Winter won the Philip K. Dick Award. Her second novel Trashlands was long-listed for the 2022 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award.

Her most recent book, the YA novel Dust, was published by Wednesday Books (Macmillan/St. Martin’s Press) in December of 2024, receiving the Gold Standard Selection from the Junior Library Guild.

Also the author of three poetry collections published on university presses and a novella, Alison’s original musicals and plays have been produced at community and regional theaters, and Off-Broadway. Recipient of a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a grant from the Ohio Arts Council, Alison was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and a Ruth Lilly Fellow from the Poetry Foundation.

The former Staff Culture Writer at Salon, Alison has been a freelance reporter for The New York Times. Her journalism has also appeared in The Atlantic, The Nation, The Washington Post, 100 Days in Appalachia, and more. Her creative writing has been published in The Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, Vogue, ELLE, VQR, Poetry, Longreads, and others. Alison holds a PhD from Ohio University and currently lives with her son in Cleveland, Ohio.