Profile

Stephanie Grant

Assistant Professor
Department of Literature

  • Stephanie Grant is the author of two novels, The Passion of Alice (Houghton Mifflin 1995) and Map of Ireland (Scribner 2008). Her work has received many grants and awards, including a Rona Jaffee Foundation Award, a Ludwig Vogelstein Award and an NEA fellowship. She is currently at work on Home Equity, a novel about contemporary marriage and debt.

  • Degrees

    MA, English/Creative Writing, New York University, New York, NY
    BA, French Literature, Wesleyan University

  • Languages Spoken:

    French

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Teaching

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Selected Publications

Novels

       
  • Map of Ireland, a novel, March 2008, Scribner
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  • The Passion of Alice, a novel, October 1995, Houghton Mifflin; paperback, Bantam 1996

Short Fiction

       
  • "Bow Woman," in Central Ohio Writing, Spring/Summer 2002
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    "The Map of Ireland," excerpted in Cabbage and Bones: An Anthology of Irish -American Women's Fiction, September 1997, Henry Holt

       
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    "Posting-Up," in Tasting Life twice: Literary Lesbian Fiction By New American Writers, June 1995, Avon/Morrow; Reprinted in Full Court: A Literary Anthology of Basketball, 1996, Breakaway Books; Reprinted in A Whole Other Ballgame: Women Writing Women's Sports, September 1997, Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Reprinted in Reading Women's Lives, September 1998, Simon & Schuster.

       

Nonfiction

       
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    "Beyond Biology," in Maybe Baby: 28 Writers Tell the Truth About Skepticism, Infertility, Baby Lust, Childlessness and How They Made the Most Difficult Decision of Their Lives, HarperCollins, April 2006

       
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  • "Playing for Keeps," MAMM Magazine, January 2000
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    "The Ex-Files," OUT Magazine, August 1997

       
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  • "Last Willful Testament," OUT Magazine, December 1996

Review Essays

       
  • Review of The Law of Enclosures, Dale Peck, The Voice Literary Supplement, March 1996

 

Work In Progress

       
  • Home Equity, a novel
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    "Edna's Daughter," an essay

       

Honors, Awards, and Fellowships

       
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    Individual Artist Fellowship, Ohio Arts Council, 2003

       
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    Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Award, December 1999

       
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    Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award, September 1999

       
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    Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Award, May 1999

       
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    Creative Writing Fellow, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) 1998

       
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    Long List, Orange Prize for Women Writers, Great Britian, 1996

       
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    Nomination, Lambda Award for Best Lesbian Fiction, 1995

       
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    Revson Fellowship, Columbia University, 1992-93