Stephanie Whetstone
I’m a writer and editor from Kentucky, then North Carolina, who somehow ended up in Brooklyn. I write fiction and nonfiction. I love stories and grammar, and I think semicolons are the Audrey Hepburn of punctuation.
Fiction
My stories have appeared in various journals, including Waccamaw and Narrative. My novel, Deep Belly of the Earth, was recently named a finalist for the Lee Smith Novel Prize from Blair Publisher. I am currently at work on a draft of a new novel, Aviatrix.
Strip Job, Narrative’s “Story of the Week”
Raptor, Waypoints Magazine
Alight, Drafthorse Literary Journal
Tree City, Waccamaw
Nonfiction
I have a newsletter at Substack, “Half Done is Well Begun,” about my life. You can read and subscribe to that here. My essay “Mathitudes” won the North Carolina Writers’ Conference Rose Post Creative Nonfiction prize. I also have an essay in the anthology Gone Dogs.
Editing
As Assistant Director of PrincetonWrites, I work with international scholars and staff at Princeton University to improve and polish their non-academic writing. I help translate big ideas and complex concepts for a wide variety of audiences. I am also available as a developmental editor for fiction and nonfiction projects. For availability and rates, please contact me at stephwhet@gmail.com.
About me
I have built my life around stories and language. I graduated from Duke University, then made documentary videos at Appalshop in eastern Kentucky. I lived in Tennessee and Connecticut before moving back to Durham, NC. I got an MFA in fiction writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and taught Composition, Literature, and Creative Writing there, at St. Augustine’s University, and at Durham Technical Community College. Now, I am the Assistant Director of PrincetonWrites, a non-academic writing center at Princeton University, and I live in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
For more details, check out my cv here.