Bio

Author of the novel Trashlands (MIRA/HarperCollins), long-listed for the 2022 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, Alison Stine’s first novel Road Out of Winter won the Philip K. Dick Award.

Her third novel Dust was published by Wednesday Books (Macmillan/St. Martin’s Press) in December of 2024, and received 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 (NEA) and a grant from the Ohio Arts Council, Alison was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and a Ruth Lilly Fellow.

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 Washington Post, the Atlantic, 100 Days in Appalachia, and more. Her creative writing has been published in the Kenyon Review, the Paris Review, Vogue, VQR, Poetry, and others. Alison holds a PhD from Ohio University and lives with her son in Ohio.