Stacey Levine is the author of My Horse and Other Stories (PEN/West Fiction Award, 1994) and the novels Dra-- and Frances Johnson (finalist, Washington State Book Award, 2005). She was awarded The Stranger Genius Prize for Literature in 2009. Her short story collection The Girl with Brown Fur will be published in the spring of 2011 by Starcherone/Dzanc.

A Puschcart Prize nominee, her fiction has appeared in the Denver Quarterly, Fence, Tin House, The Fairy Tale Review, The Washington Review, the Santa Monica Review, Yeti, and other venues. She has contributed to the American Book Review, Bookforum, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Fodor's City Guides, The Stranger, The Chicago Reader, and other publications.