about chrissy
Chrissy Stegman is a Baltimore-based poet and writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Cherry Tree, Chiron Review, MER, ONE ART, Rattle, River Heron Review, Gargoyle, ELJ Editions, Variant Lit, Fictive Dream, Okay Donkey, Gone Lawn, Ghost Parachute, Stone Circle Review, UCity Review, Inkfish, BULL, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, Somewhere, Someone Is Forgetting You, is available from Alien Buddha Press.
She is the winner of the 2025 Ellen Conroy Kennedy Poetry Prize, a 2025 Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Fellow, and a recipient of a 2026 Best of Rattle Award for “My Father as Weather.” Her work has received three Pushcart Prize nominations, multiple Best of the Net nominations, and a 2026 Best New Poets nomination from Okay Donkey. Her fiction was longlisted for the 2026 Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions. She was selected for the 2026 Kenyon Review Residential Writing Workshop in Poetry and received a Poetry Merit Scholarship to the Tinker Mountain Writers’ Workshop at Hollins University.
Stegman mentors incarcerated writers through Free Time: Writers Inside and Out at the University of Arizona Poetry Center. She has served as a judge for the National Endowment for the Arts’ Poetry Out Loud regional competition in Maryland and as a judge and writing consultant for Baltimore’s Baldwin Prize. She is a curator for Button Poetry, a reader for the Alice James Award, and a reader for Fractured Lit and Reckon Review.
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The Disappointed Housewife: How to measure a dog’s lonliness across time
2025 Ellen Conroy Kennedy Poetry Prize
Chrissy’s interview with Andrew Carega
Stone Circle Review (Pushcart nominated)
BULL
Yellow Arrow Publishing: Interview
Persephone on a low self-esteem day
A Sunday with Martha – Fictive Dream
Gargoyle Magazine: Portrait of the Poet Viewed from a Blind Spot