Bio
ALISON STINE is the author of the novel Trashlands (MIRA / HarperCollins), longlisted for the 2022 Reading the West Book Award, a finalist for the Ohioana Book Award, and longlisted for the 2022 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. Her first novel Road Out of Winter won the 2020 Philip K. Dick Award.
Her next novel Dust will be published by Wednesday Books (Macmillan/St. Martin’s Press) in December 2024. She is also the author of three poetry collections and a novella. Alison’s plays and original musicals have been produced at community and regional theaters, and Off-Broadway.
Recipient of a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and a grant from the Ohio Arts Council, Alison was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, a Ruth Lilly Fellow, and received the Studs Terkel Award for Media and Journalism.
“This is her ballad to love in a time of darkness.”
— los angeles times
Alison has been the Staff Culture Writer at Salon, and has written as freelance reporter for the New York Times. Her journalism has also appeared in the Washington Post, The Atlantic, 100 Days in Appalachia, and more. Her creative writing has been published in The Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, Vogue, VQR, Poetry, and others. She works as the Climate Justice Senior Editor at NPQ, and lives with her son in Ohio.
Latest Book
Set in a strip club at the end of the world, TRASHLANDS follows Coral, who works as a plucker, pulling garbage to sell from the river in Scrappalachia. Coral lives in a near future, following climate disaster, when no more new plastic can be made. Trash is now currency. At Trashlands, women dance for an endless loop of strangers and the club's violent owner rules as mayor. When a reporter from a struggling city on the coast arrives, Coral is presented with an opportunity to change her life. But is it possible to choose a future for herself?
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