Stephanie Anderson
Stephanie Anderson is the author of From the Ground Up: The Women Revolutionizing Regenerative Agriculture (The New Press, November 2024) and One Size Fits None: A Farm Girl's Search for the Promise of Regenerative Agriculture (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), which won a 2019 Midwest Book Award (Nature) and a 2020 Nautilus Book Award (Green Living and Sustainability). Stephanie is the 2020 winner of the Margolis Award for social justice journalism and serves as co-editor for the University of Nebraska Press “Our Regenerative Future” book series.
Stephanie’s work has appeared in The Rumpus, TriQuarterly, Flyway, Hotel Amerika, Terrain.org, The Conversation, The Chronicle Review, Sweet and others. Her essay “Disturbance” won the 2022 Regeneration Literary Award from Ninth Letter and I-Regen at the University of Illinois, and her essay “Greyhound” won the 2016 Payton James Freeman Essay Prize from The Rumpus, Drake University, and the Freeman family. Her work has been included on the notable lists in Pushcart Prize Best of the Small Presses (2023 and 2022), The Best American Essays 2020 and The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2020. She also contributed to the essay collection Permanent Vacation: Eighteen Writers on Work and Life in Our National Parks, Vol. 2 from Bona Fide Books.
Stephanie holds an MFA in creative nonfiction (2015) from Florida Atlantic University and a bachelor’s degree in English (2009) from Augustana University in Sioux Falls, SD. Prior to her current role as Assistant Professor of Creative Nonfiction, she served for six years as Instructor of English at FAU. She has also taught workshops in fiction, poetry, and memoir at FAU's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in Jupiter, FL. Stephanie works primarily in literary journalism, narrative nonfiction, and literary fiction.
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