STEPHANIE L. HARPER

AUTHOR BIO:

In what seems to her like a former lifetime, Stephanie L. Harper earned a B.A. with majors in English and German from Grinnell College, and an M.A. in German literature from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. After a twenty-two year hiatus from academia—during which time she mothered and home schooled two extraordinary children—she entered, and has now completed, the M.F.A. Program at Butler University in Indianapolis, IN. A Best of the Net and seven-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Harper is author of the chapbooks, This Being Done (Finishing Line Press), The Death’s-Head’s Testament (Main Street Rag), and We Have Seen the Corn (Kelsay Books, June 2025). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Pleiades, Slippery Elm Literary Journal, Neologism Poetry Journal, The Night Heron Barks, The Dodge, Crab Creek Review, Resurrection Magazine, Whale Road Review, Laurel Review, Five South, Salamander Magazine, Taos Journal of Poetry, and elsewhere. Additionally, she is the cover artist for Robert Okaji’s poetry chapbooks From Every Moment A Second (available at AMAZON), his forthcoming chapbook, winner of Slipstream Press’s 35th Annual Poetry Chapbook Prize, Buddha’s Not Talking, and Scarecrow Sees (River Glass Books).