Alison Stine is an American poet and author whose first novelRoad Out of Winter won the 2021Philip K. Dick Award.^[1] Her poetry and nonfiction has been published in a number of newspapers and magazines includingThe New York Times,The Washington Post,The Paris Review, andTin House.

Stine was born in rural Indiana and raised inMansfield, Ohio,^[2] but spent most of her adult life inAppalachia in southern Ohio,^[2] a setting which she says heavily influences her writings and her life.^[3][4] Stine has been partially deaf since birth.^[5] She now lives inColorado.

Stine worked as an academic for a number of years, previously serving as the Emerging Writer Lecturer atGettysburg College,^[6] and has taught atFordham University,Grand Valley State University,Denison University, andOhio University. She is also a former child actor and her plays have been performed at the Cleveland Playhouse,^[7]the International Thespian Festival, and Off-Broadway forStephen Sondheim's Young Playwrights Inc. Urban Retreat.^[8]

• Denison University (B.A.)
• University of Maryland (M.F.A.), in poetry
• Ohio University (PhD)

Stine regularly writesThe New York Times,The Washington Post,The Atlantic,The Guardian, and other publications. Her poetry has been published in a number of literary journals includingAGNI Online,Poetry, andPrairie Schooner, while her nonfiction has appeared inPhoebe,Santa Clara Review,Sycamore Review, andVirginia Quarterly Review. Her short fiction has been published in journals and magazines includingThe Antioch Review,The Paris Review,SmokeLong Quarterly,Swink, andTin House.

Her essay "On Poverty", a commentary onclassism in the writing world published in 2016 inThe Kenyon Review, went viral.^[4]

Her first novel,Road Out of Winter, focuses on working-class women in rural Ohio dealing with climate change in a post-apocalyptic landscape^[9] in whatLibrary Journal says "blends a rural thriller and speculative realism into what could be called dystopian noir."^[10] The novel won the 2020Philip K. Dick Award.

• 2010Brittingham Prize in Poetry forWait^[11]
• 2021Philip K. Dick Award forRoad Out of Winter

• 2008 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from hePoetry Foundation.^[12]
• Individual Artist Fellowship from theNational Endowment for the Arts (NEA)^{[citation needed][when?]}
• Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University.^[13][when?]

• —— (2015).Supervision (mass market paperback ed.).HarperVoyager. pp. 1–252.ISBN 9780008120702.
• —— (2016).The Protectors (kindle ed.). pp. 1–85.ASIN B01N658N3Y.
• —— (2020).Road Out of Winter (paperback ed.).MIRA /HarperCollins. pp. 1–315.ISBN 9780778309925.
• —— (2021).Trashlands (hardcover ed.).MIRA /HarperCollins. pp. 1–384.ISBN 9780778311270.

• —— (2001).Lot of My Sister (chapbook ed.).Kent:Kent State University Press. pp. 1–25.ISBN 9780873387057.
• —— (2009).Ohio Violence (paperback ed.).Denton:University of North Texas Press. pp. 1–80.ISBN 9781574412581.
• —— (2011).Wait (paperback ed.).Madison:University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 1–88.ISBN 9780299283148.

• "Waste" (poem).Satellite Convulsions: Poems fromTin House. Eds. Brenda Shaughnessy, CJ Evans. Portland: Tin House Books, 2008.
• "Ring of Fire" (essay).Literary Cash: Writings Inspired by the Legendary Johnny Cash. Ed. Bob Batchelor. Dallas: Benbella Books, 2007.
• "Stranger", "Passage" (poems).Shooting the Rat. Eds. Mark Pawlak,Dick Lourie, Ron Schreiber,Robert Hershon. New York: Hanging Loose Press, 2003.
• "Wind" (poem ).Luna, Luna: Creative Writing Ideas from Spanish and Latino Literature. Ed. Julio Marzan. New York: Teachers and Writers Collaborative, 1997.

• Author's Website

• Living people
• American poets
• Gettysburg College faculty
• People from Athens County, Ohio
• Writers from Ohio
• 1978 births
• Fordham University faculty
• Grand Valley State University faculty
• Denison University faculty
• Ohio University faculty

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