
Stephanie Grant Assistant Professor Literature
- Degrees
- MA, English/Creative Writing, New York University, New York, NY BA, French Literature, Wesleyan University
- Languages Spoken
- French
- Bio
- 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.
- See Also
- Literature Department
- For the Media
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Teaching
Fall 2020
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LIT-107 Creative Writing Across Genres
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LIT-700 Advanced Fiction Workshop
Spring 2021
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LIT-480 Senior Project in Literature
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Work In Progress
- Home Equity, a novel
- "Edna's Daughter," an essay
Honors, Awards, and Fellowships
- Individual Artist Fellowship, Ohio Arts Council, 2003
- Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Award, December 1999
- Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award, September 1999
- Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Award, May 1999
- Creative Writing Fellow, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) 1998
- Long List, Orange Prize for Women Writers, Great Britian, 1996
- Nomination, Lambda Award for Best Lesbian Fiction, 1995
- Revson Fellowship, Columbia University, 1992-93
Selected Publications
Novels
- Map of Ireland, a novel, March 2008, Scribner
- The Passion of Alice, a novel, October 1995, Houghton Mifflin; paperback, Bantam 1996
Short Fiction
- "Best Man", Narrative Magazine, Winter 2015
- "Into the River Again," Narrative Magazine, Winter 2015
- "Bow Woman," in Central Ohio Writing, Spring/Summer 2002
- "The Map of Ireland," excerpted in Cabbage and Bones: An Anthology of Irish -American Women's Fiction, September 1997, Henry Holt
- "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
- "Postpartum," The New Yorker, December 2015
- "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
- "Playing for Keeps," MAMM Magazine, January 2000
- "The Ex-Files," OUT Magazine, August 1997
- "Last Willful Testament," OUT Magazine, December 1996
Review Essays
- Review of The Law of Enclosures, Dale Peck, The Voice Literary Supplement, March 1996