Angelique Stevens lives in upstate New York where she teaches creative writing, literature of genocide, and race literatures at a community college. She has received fellowships from Bread Loaf, Tin House, Kenyon Review, Sewanee Writers Workshops, Hedgebrook, and the Periplus Mentorship Collective, and has been a teaching fellow at the Lighthouse Book Project. Her nonfiction can be found in The Best American Essays 2023, edited by Vivian Gornick, and The Best American Essays 2022, edited by Alexander Chee. She has also been published in Granta, LitHub, and The New England Review, among others.
While at MacDowell, Stevens worked on a revision of her book forthcoming from Simon & Schuster about growing up in poverty and the myth of the American Dream. She also wrote a new braided essay about loss, fear, and taking chances.
Portrait by Jasna Bogdanovska
