Stonestreet is a graduate of Yale University, and she received an Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the Master of Fine Arts Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College where she received the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship in Creative Writing.
Her first book, Tulips, Water, Ash, was published by Northeastern University Press, and chosen by Jean Valentine as the last Morse Poetry Prize, before its suspension in 2009. Her poems have been anthologized in Best New Poets 2005 and Best New Poets 2006 (Samovar Press), and they have appeared in literary journals and magazines, including The Iowa Review, Bellingham Review, Blackbird, and Third Coast. Her honors include fellowships from Millay Colony for the Arts and Vermont Studio Center.
2014 Bulletin City Press Frost Place Chapbook Award 2013 Cream City Review Poetry Prize 2009 Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize 2004 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship in Creative Writing (Master of Fine Arts Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College) 2003 Universities West Press Emily Dickinson Award 2001 San Jose Center Foreign Poetry and Literature Poetry Prize 2001 James Duval Phelan Literary Award (San Francisco Foundation).
