about chrissy

Chrissy Stegman is a 3x Best of the Net and Pushcart nominated poet and writer from Baltimore, Maryland. Recent work has appeared in Rattle, River Heron Review, Jake, UCity Review, Gone Lawn, Gargoyle Magazine, Stone Circle Review, Fictive Dream, Inkfish, 5 Minutes, Libre, and BULL. She is a two-time Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee. Her chapbook, Somewhere, Someone Is Forgetting You, is out now from Alien Buddha Press. She is a 2025 MVCWI Fellow and recipient of the Idyllwild Arts Scholarship for Poetry. Her poem, Dressing Emily Dickinson in the Wind, was a 2025 Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest finalist.

Links to some of my work:

Rattle

River Heron Review

Gargoyle #11

Okay Donkey

Chrissy’s interview with Andrew Carega

Stone Circle Review (Pushcart nominated)

UCity Review Issue 29

BULL

The Disappointed Housewife

Oddball Magazine

How to Identify a Wildflower

Meet Chrissy Stegman — 2022 Second Place Winner of the Ellen Conroy Kennedy Poetry Contest | HoCoPoLitSo

Red Ogre Review

Gone Lawn, Issue 48

Gone Lawn, Issue 55

Yellow Arrow Publishing: Interview

Rejection Letters

Blue Heron Review

Persephone on a low self-esteem day, read it here

Poetry Breakfast, read it here

A Sunday with Martha – Fictive Dream

Boats Against the Current

Poverty House | Holler

Gargoyle Magazine: Portrait of the Poet Viewed from a Blind Spot

Inkfish Magazine

Jake

Serotonin Press