Stephanie Carpenter is the author of the novel Moral Treatment (2025), inaugural winner of the Summit Series Prize from Central Michigan University Press. Her first book, Missing Persons: Stories, won the 2017 Press 53 Award in Short Fiction.
Her work has been published in journals including Copper Nickel, Ecotone, The Missouri Review, Big Fiction, Crab Orchard Review, and Witness. Her completed manuscript, “Many and Wide Separations: Two Novellas” explores two very different models of women’s empowerment and creative expression in mid-nineteenth-century New England. The work is represented by Isabelle Bleecker at Nordlyset Literary Agency.
At Michigan Tech, she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in creative writing, including poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as thematic workshops like science fiction, nature writing, and bibliomemoir. She also teaches a wide variety of undergraduate literature courses, from introductory courses like Writing about Literature and the American Experience in Literature, to upper-level courses on topics including Thoreau and His Legacy, Major Works of George Saunders, and Illustrated Texts.
