Stephanie Reents

Stephanie Reents is a narrative writer and teacher who recently moved to Seattle from the East Coast where she was a tenured professor in the English Department at College of the Holy Cross. She's the author of The Kissing List, a collection of stories that was an Editors' Choice in The New York Times Book Review, and I Meant to Kill Ye, a bibliomemoir chronicling her journey into the strange void at the heart of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. Her novel, We Loved to Run, will be published next year by Hogarth/Penguin Random House. Her awards include two O. Henry Prizes for her short fiction, a Stegner Fellowship, and a Rhodes Scholarship.