AGNI
Best New Poets 2015
Black Warrior Review
Bennington Review
The Burnside Review
Carolina Quarterly
Chicago Review
Cincinnati Review (forthcoming in print edition)
Colorado Review
Columbia: A Journal
Delmar
Denver Quarterly
Fence
The Florida Review
Georgia Review
Iowa Review
LIT
Ploughshares (forthcoming)
Poetry Northwest
Seneca Review
Smartish Pace
South Dakota Review:
Sou’wester
Washington Square Review
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BIO
Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer is a poet and installation artist in St. Louis. She is the author of the poetry collections Well Waiting Room (Fordham University Press, Editor’s Prize, 2021), and Cleavemark (BOAAT Press, 2016), as well as the children’s book The Cloud Lasso (Penny Candy Books, 2019). Her poems, art, and criticism have appeared in or are forthcoming from numerous journals, including Bomb, Bennington Review, Georgia Review, Harvard Review, Iowa Review, AGNI, Washington Square, At Length, The Offing, LIT, The Wilson Quarterly, Colorado Review, Ploughshares, and the Poetry Foundation. She is the recipient of a 2022 artist support grant from the Regional Arts Commission and an Artistic Innovations Grant from Mid-America Arts Alliance for a collaborative installation with Cheryl Wassenaar. Schlaifer was a finalist for the 2023 Witness Magazine Literary Awards in Poetry, the runner-up for the 2019 Iowa Review Prize, and a semi-finalist for the 2015 Discovery/Boston Review Prize, among other honors. In 2016, she served as the Greyfriar Writer-in-Residence + Living Literature Series at Siena College. She frequently collaborates with other artists on works that combine language and visual art. Contact her to schedule a class visit, reading, or other engagement.