Alison Stine Non-Member New

Writer, witch

Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Visual Art

Alison Stine's first novel Road Out of Winter won the Philip K. Dick Award. Her second novel Trashlands was long-listed for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, and her most recent book, the YA novel Dust, was published by Wednesday Books (Macmillan) in 2024, receiving the Gold Standard Selection from the Junior Library Guild and winning the High Plains International Book Award.

Her next novel, The Raven Engagement, the first book in her YA fantasy series, is forthcoming from Wednesday Books in 2027.

“On Poverty,” her essay about classism in the literary world, went viral in 2016, launching her journalism career. She has worked as a freelance reporter for The New York Times, and the Staff Culture Writer at Salon.

Also the author of three poetry collections and a novella, Alison was an NEA Fellow, a finalist in Cord Jefferson’s Susan M. Haas Fellowship, a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and a Ruth Lilly Fellow.