Tessa Stevens
BIO
Tessa Stevens was born in Arlington, Massachusetts. She is a recent graduate of Arizona State University’s MFA program. Her work has been published in Temenos. Currently, she is at work on her first collection of short stories that humbly attempt to negotiate the worlds of fiction and nonfiction. She lives, reads, writes, and works in Boston, Massachusetts.
Influences and/or people I want to be like:
Dorothy Allison, Gloria Anzaldua, James Baldwin, Charles Baxter, Ishmael Beah, Allison Bechdel, Malachi Black, Harold Brodkey, Gwendolyn Brooks, Berkley Carnine, Raymond Carver, Michael Chabon, Dan Chaon, Sandra Cisneros, Michael Cunningham, Magdalen Dale, Mark Doty, Andre Dubus, Carolyn Ferrell, Mary Gaitskill, Kathe Kollwitz, Amy Hempel, Cynthia Hogue, Tara Ison, Audre Lorde, Leila Macbeth, TM McNally, Lorrie Moore, Edvard Munch, Antonya Nelson, Paul Ocampo, Melissa Pritchard, Richard Powers, Claudia Rankine, Adrienne Rich, Alberto Ríos, Muriel Rukeyser, Jim Shepard, Daviel Shy, Truong Tran, Jeanette Winterson, Tobias Wolff, Virginia Woolf.
ARCHIVED HONEST WORK
"Body Trouble"
RETREATS
March 6-9, 2014