Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer has a BA/BFA from Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her work recently appeared in Chicago Review, Cimarron Review, Colorado Review,SpringGun and Sugar House Review. She received 3rd place in the 2012 Beullah Rose Poetry Prize from Smartish Pace and her poem appears in Issue 20. [bio updated 2013]
