S T E P H E N E L L I O T T .
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Homepage
www.stephenelliott.com
Stephen Elliott's Poker Report
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Biography
Stephen Elliott grew up in Chicago, where in his teens he was made a ward of the court and placed in various state-run homes. He attended the University of Illinois and received his master's from Northwestern University. Currently Stephen Elliott is the Marsh McCall lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford University.
Stephen Elliott was awarded the 2001 Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, given to emerging writers in fiction and poetry.
Stephen Elliott went on the campaign trail and wrote a book about the 2004 presidential race, Looking Forward To It: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying About It and Love the American Electoral Process (Picador, Oct 2004). His novel Happy Baby was co-published by McSweeney's and MacAdam/Cage and was released in March 2004.
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Books
Happy Baby (MacAdam/Cage Publishing and McSweeney's, 2004)
Politically Inspired, edited by Stephen Elliott, Gabriel Kram, and Jenny Zhang (MacAdam/Cage Publishing, 2003)
What It Means to Love You (MacAdam/Cage Publishing, 2002)
A Life Without Consequences (MacAdam/Cage Publishing, 2001)
Jones Inn (Boneyard Press, 1998)
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Awards
Stegner Fellowship, 2001
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Press and Interviews
December 2003
www.bandoppler.com
Interview
By Barry Englehardt
"The great thing about editing an anthology, though, is that I picked the stories that I loved. I can look someone in the eye and say this is a great book. And I believe that."
November 2003
The Stanford Daily
Interview
By Karan Mahajan
"I always wrote. Even when I was 10 years old, my walls were covered in poetry that I'd written. But I wrote to express myself and to communicate, which is one reason for writing — other people write because they love or esteem literature."
November 2003
Newsday, Inc.
The True Anti-Bush; You can't be kind of pro-war, kind of pro-tax cuts and beat the president.
By Stephen Elliott
"Because I have worked on a presidential campaign and written several political articles, my friends and students often come to me with questions on the 2004 election. Recently those questions revolve around the longevity of the Howard Dean campaign."
September 2003
The Believer
Looking Forward to It
By Stephen Elliott
"The campaign trail is like high school for the middle-aged, or Hollywood for ugly people. Howard dean is out to change all that. Kind of. Maybe. Probably not."
February 2003
Chicago Sun Times
Interview: How Street Kids Live
By Mike Thomas
"Rising author Stephen Elliott knows what life is like for 214 kids missing from the DCFS system. And he knows why they run
away. Eighteen years ago, he was one of them."
October 2002
Windy City Times
Interview
By Gregg Shapiro
"Things seem to be happening in twos for writer Stephen Elliott. He is finishing up the second year of a two-year Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University in San Francisco and his second novel, What It Means to Love You (MacAdam/Cage), which is about male strippers on the Halsted Street strip in Chicago, is being published this month."
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