Lori Ann Stephens

Lori Ann Stephens is the author of Blue Running (Moonflower Books, UK, 2021), a “Book of the Month” for The Guardian and Financial Time. Her other novels are Some Act of Vision (winner of the National Reader’s Choice Award), Pierre François: 5th Grade Mishaps, Novalee and the Spider Secret, and Song of the Orange Moons. Her award-winning short stories have been published in The Chicago Tribune, The Louisville Review, and Glimmer Train Stories, among other places. Her creative writing broadened to narrative lyrics when, to her shock, she won the English National Opera’s Miniopera Contest, judged by Neil Gaiman and Jeremy Sams, and has since seen her libretti come to life in opera performances in London, Minneapolis, and Dallas. When she’s not writing, she’s remodeling her house with reckless optimism. She teaches literature and writing at Southern Methodist University.