Background
Stephanie Grant was born on March 30, 1962, in Stoughton, Massachusetts, United States.
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Stephanie Grant
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New York City, New York, United States
New York University where Stephanie Grant received her Master of Fine Arts in English and Creative Writing.
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45 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06459, United States
Fayerweather with Beckham Hall of Wesleyan University where Stephanie Grant obtained her Bachelor of Arts in French Literature.
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Butler Library of Columbia University where Stephanie Grant was a Charles H. Revson Fellow from 1992 to 1993.
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New York University where Stephanie Grant received her Master of Fine Arts in English and Creative Writing.
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45 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06459, United States
Fayerweather with Beckham Hall of Wesleyan University where Stephanie Grant obtained her Bachelor of Arts in French Literature.
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116th St & Broadway, New York, NY 10027, United States
Butler Library of Columbia University where Stephanie Grant was a Charles H. Revson Fellow from 1992 to 1993.
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The Passion of Alice
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01K170PKG/?tag=2022091-20
1995
Map of Ireland
(In this ambitious and arresting novel, Stephanie Grant's ...)
In this ambitious and arresting novel, Stephanie Grant's searing prose, powerful storytelling, and richly drawn characters bring tumultuous moment in American history into perfect focus
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0013TRQWC/?tag=2022091-20
2008
Stephanie Grant
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Education
Stephanie Grant studied English and Creative Writing at New York University where she received her Master of Fine Arts degree. She also obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in French Literature from Wesleyan University. From 1992 to 1993, Grant was a Charles H. Revson Fellow at Columbia University.
Career
Stephanie Grant began her debut novel, ‘The Passion of Alice’, in a novel-writing class in New York University’s graduate writing program. When she completed the story, she showed it to her instructor, Mona Simpson, who directed Grant to a literary agent. Forty-eight hours after Grant signed a contract with the agency, Houghton Mifflin, which published the story in 1995.
The novel received critical acclaim, and was followed in 2008 by another book, ‘Map of Ireland’. One of the most recent works of Stephanie Grant is 2015 ‘Home Equity’, a story about contemporary marriage and debt.
Grant has worked for a publishing company and as a fund-raiser for lesbian and gay nonprofit agencies, and has curated reading series ‘In Our Own Write’ at The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center. In addition to her writing activity, Grant has tried her hand in teaching. She has taught creative writing at the Ohio State University and Mount Holyoke College.
Nowadays, Stephanie Grant lives in Durham, North Carolina where she serves as a visiting writer holding fiction workshops in the MFA program in the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University.
Achievements
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Stephanie Grant is a talented author whose novels are praised both by critics and readers.
The writer was a recipient of such awards as Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, an Individual Artists Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council, and a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
‘The passion of Alice’ was a nominee for Britain’s Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction and the Lambda Award for Best Lesbian Fiction.
Works
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Map of Ireland
(In this ambitious and arresting novel, Stephanie Grant's ...)
2008 - The Passion of Alice 1995
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Map of Ireland
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Quotations: "I really think of different genres as different methods of understanding. How we transfigure thoughts into poetry and nonfiction are really different. And by practicing the other form, we learn that difference in a more profound way."
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Education
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New York University , English and Creative Writing , Master of Fine Arts New York City, New York, United States
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1992 - 1993