ABOUT
ABOUT
Stacy Austin Egan was born and raised in Austin, TX. Her short book of fiction, You Could Stop It Here, was published by PANK books in 2018 and was a 2019 Eric Hoffer Book Awards honorable mention. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in American Short Fiction, The Hunger, december magazine and others. She is a recipient of a 2021 Tin House residency. In 2022, she was a Sewanee Writers' Conference Tennessse Williams Scholar and was named a finalist for a Sustainable Arts Foundation grant. She has completed a YA novel and is at work on a novel for adults. Stacy holds an M.F.A from McNeese State University and a B.A. from New York University and lives in west Texas with her family where she teaches reading, writing, and literature at Midland College.
“Egan separates herself with compact stories of paths taken, wishes wanted, and lessons delivered bluntly in the unfolding. Her slow-motion camera eye delivers.”
--The Eric Hoffer Award on U.S. Review of Books
Stacy Austin Egan was born and raised in Austin, TX. Her short book of fiction, You Could Stop It Here, was published by PANK books in 2018 and was a 2019 Eric Hoffer Book Awards honorable mention. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in American Short Fiction, The Hunger, december magazine and others. She is a recipient of a 2021 Tin House residency. In 2022, she was a Sewanee Writers' Conference Tennessse Williams Scholar and was named a finalist for a Sustainable Arts Foundation grant. She has completed a YA novel and is at work on a novel for adults. Stacy holds an M.F.A from McNeese State University and a B.A. from New York University and lives in west Texas with her family where she teaches reading, writing, and literature at Midland College.
“Egan separates herself with compact stories of paths taken, wishes wanted, and lessons delivered bluntly in the unfolding. Her slow-motion camera eye delivers.”
--The Eric Hoffer Award on U.S. Review of Books