BIOGRAPHY

Stacey Levine is the author of five books of uniquely original voice-driven fiction. Her novel MICE 1961, a notable book of 2024 by The Washington Post, concerns a young woman bullied for her albinism during the Cold War era.

Levine’s short fiction collection MY HORSE AND OTHER STORIES won a PEN Fiction Award; THE GIRL WITH BROWN FUR, longlisted for The Story Prize, was also shortlisted for the Washington State Book Award, and her novel FRANCES JOHNSON was also shortlisted for the Washington State Book Award. MY HORSE and Levine’s novel DRA—  were published by the much-lauded Los Angeles-based Sun & Moon Press. Her short fiction has been translated for Danish and Japanese publications.

As frequent a guest presenter at mucid bar/galleries as at university writing programs, Levine has published fiction and articles in The Brooklyn Rail, Bookforum, Tin House, Fence, The Iowa Review, The Fairy Tale Review, The Seattle Times, Santa Monica Review, Yeti, and other venues. A collaborator with experimental cellist and composer Lori Goldston and graphic novelist David Lasky, Levine has received a Stranger Genius Award for Literature and other fellowships. She lives in Seattle and is proud to teach at Seattle Central College with AFT representation.