Stacey Levine is the author of two short fiction collections, My Horse And Other Stories, and The Girl With Brown Fur, as well as the novels Dra— and Frances Johnson. Her debut collection won a PEN/West (now PEN USA) Fiction Award; her work has twice been shortlisted for the Washington State Book Award. Recipient of a Stranger Genius Award for Literature, her fiction has appeared in Your Impossible Voice, The Brooklyn Rail, Tin House, Yeti, The Fairy Tale Review, The Iowa Review, Golden Handcuffs, Seattle Magazine, and other venues. Her short fiction has been translated for Japanese and Danish publications. Her new novel, Mice 1961, was published by Verse Chorus Press in March 2024.

“Stacey Levine ignores lyricism as an evolutionary dead end. Life is fractious and dire, her prose style says; let fiction serve as razor and torch. It’s not that Levine isn’t funny or that she doesn’t forge phrases and sentences of throat-clutching beauty. It’s just that her effort to dissect humankind’s propensity for neuroses, fallacies, and other inanities requires measured drollery and surgical concision.”—Donna Seaman, Bookforum