Stephanie R. Pearmain holds an MFA in Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults from Hollins University and is also a graduate of the Children's Book Academy. She earned a BA in Religious Studies and History from the University of Arizona and has also completed graduate work in the field of Women’s Studies. Stephanie’s work experience includes working at bookstores, grant writing for non-profit organizations, and teaching. For almost two decades she has worked in the English Department at the University of Arizona and has also taught writing courses at Pima Community College. She has served as a Reader with a top Juvenile Literary Agency and as a Fiction Reader for YARN, an award winning online YA magazine. In the fall of 2016 her University of Arizona publishing class launched Tucson Tales, an online children's literature publication which has now grown and been re-branded as Pine Reads Review with a focus on YA stories, reviews, and author/illustrator interviews. Pine Reads Review is run as an undergraduate internship. In her spare time she swims, bikes, runs, and reviews & edits books (picture books through novels). She resides primarily in Tucson, Arizona.

Honors & Awards

• Acceptance to the Highlights Foundation YA Whole Novel Workshop
• Professional Development Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts (2010, 2016)
• John Woods Scholarship for Prague Summer Creative Writing Program
• Scholarship to attend Whidbey Island Writer’s Association Conference
• Career Development Grant from the American Association of University Women (AAUW)
  
• Hispanic Scholarship Fund Grant Recipient

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