about chrissy

Chrissy Stegman is a three-time Pushcart Prize- and Best of the Net-nominated poet and writer from Baltimore, Maryland. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Michigan Quarterly Review, One Art, Rattle, River Heron Review, Gargoyle, Variant Lit, Fictive Dream, Okay Donkey, Gone Lawn, Gooseberry Pie, Ghost Parachute, Stone Circle Review, UCity Review, Inkfish, BULL, 5 Minutes, The Argyle, Blood + Honey, and Petrichor, among others. Her chapbook, Somewhere, Someone Is Forgetting You, is available from Alien Buddha Press. She is the 2025 winner of the Ellen Conroy Kennedy Prize for Poetry and a 2025 MVICW Fellow, as well as a recipient of the Idyllwild Arts Scholarship for Poetry. Her poem “Dressing Emily Dickinson in the Wind” was a finalist for the 2025 Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest. Chrissy has served as a judge for the 2026 NEA Poetry Out Loud competition and as a judge and writing consultant for the Baldwin Prize.

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2025 Ellen Conroy Kennedy Poetry Prize

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

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