Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer

Poet and installation artist Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer is the author of the poetry collection Cleavemark (BOAAT Press, 2016) and the children’s book The Cloud Lasso (illustrated by Melodie Stacey, Penny Candy Books, 2019). Her poems and art have appeared in Best New Poets, Bomb Magazine, Georgia Review, Harvard Review, AGNI, The Offing, Denver Quarterly, LIT, Colorado Review, Fence, and elsewhere. She earned an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She frequently collaborates with other artists, most recently with Cheryl Wassenaar on the installation "The Cabinet of Ordinary Affairs" at the Des Lee Gallery. She lives in St. Louis.