Stacy Tintocalis is author of the short-story collection The Tiki King (August 2010, Ohio University Press). Her fiction has been awarded The Journal's annual fiction prize, Santa Clara Review's editor's choice prize, the Mahan Fiction Award, and the McKinney Fiction Prize. Her story "Honeymoon in Beirut" is anthologized in New California Writing 2012. She is an MFA graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and received a PhD in Fiction Writing and Literature from the University of Missouri. Her current projects include a mystery novel and a fiction-writing textbook entitled How Fiction Writing Works: From Scene to Story. She is represented by the literary agent Erin Harris at Folio Literary Management.
Stacy has twenty years of experience teaching fiction writing, creative nonfiction writing, composition, and English literature. She was Assistant Professor of Fiction and Creative Nonfiction at the University of Alabama--Birmingham, a position she left to start a family in Missouri with her husband. Since then she has been a visiting fiction writer at the University of Missouri--Saint Louis' MFA program and a visiting assistant professor at Missouri University of Science and Technology. She has also taught at Missouri State University, the University of Missouri--Columbia, the University of Iowa, Westminster College, and Lindenwood College.
For the last fifteen years, Stacy has lived and worked in the Ozarks with her husband and fifteen-year-old daughter.
Stacy has twenty years of experience teaching fiction writing, creative nonfiction writing, composition, and English literature. She was Assistant Professor of Fiction and Creative Nonfiction at the University of Alabama--Birmingham, a position she left to start a family in Missouri with her husband. Since then she has been a visiting fiction writer at the University of Missouri--Saint Louis' MFA program and a visiting assistant professor at Missouri University of Science and Technology. She has also taught at Missouri State University, the University of Missouri--Columbia, the University of Iowa, Westminster College, and Lindenwood College.
For the last fifteen years, Stacy has lived and worked in the Ozarks with her husband and fifteen-year-old daughter.