Stephanie Dickinson, raised on an Iowa farm, has lived in Oregon, Texas, Louisiana and now New York City, a state unto itself. Her novel Half Girl (winner of the Hackney Award given by Birmingham-Southern) is published by Spuyten Duyvil. Corn Goddess (poems) and Road of Five Churches (stories) are available from Rain Mountain Press. A new novella Lust Series is just out from Spuyten Duyvil. Her stories have been reprinted in Best American Nonrequired Reading and New Stories from the South, Best of 2008 and 2009. "Between the Cold Hearts and Blue Dudes" was winner of New Delta Review's 2011 Matt Clark Fiction prize judged by Susan Straight. Her work has appeared in many journals including Glimmer Train, Gulf Coast, Westerly, Ontario Review and most recently Blue Lotus Review, Magnolia, Quiddity and The Bitter Oleander. She is an associate editor at Mudfish and along with Rob Cook she edits Skidrow Penthouse. She works days in midtown Manhattan and spends nights in the East Village, where she shares a five-flight walkup with the Skidrow Penthouse staff. Although once a farm girl she's a member of Farm Sanctuary, the ASPCA, and American Fandouk, a veterinary clinic that serves the working animals of Morocco and their human families.