Writers Hotel alumna, author of the novella My Xanthi, and finalist in The Sewanee Review’s 2025 Fiction, Poetry & Nonfiction Contest, Stephanie Cotsirilos taps prior careers on Broadway and in law to write about humor, injustice, and resilience. Her essay, “The Gift,” excerpted from her memoir-in-progress, appeared in The Sewanee Review’s summer 2025 issue. The New Guard provided Stephanie with her first prose publication in a literary journal and, since then, her works have appeared in McSweeney’s, Beacon Press’ award-winning anthology Breaking Break: Essays from New England on Food, Hunger, and Family, and as contest finalists in Narrative and Mississippi Review. Twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, she is an alumna of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Hobart Festival of Women Writers, and was Katahdin fellow in residence at Storyknife in Alaska. She holds degrees in comparative literature, music, and law from Brown and Yale. She lives in Portland.

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