Stephanie Macias

Writer, artist, and musician

Stephanie Macias is a Latinx writer, artist, and musician living in Austin, TX. She received an MFA in fiction from the University of Texas and has received support from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and Vermont Studio Center. Her stories have been long-listed, short-listed, and finalists for multiple prizes and nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize four times. Her work is forthcoming or has appeared in The Georgia Review, West Branch, Epiphany, Fractured Lit, Portland Review, StoryQuarterly, Brink, No Tokens, Southern Humanities Review, and more. From 2011 to 2018 she performed under the name Little Brave. Between the years of 2003 and 2016, she made her living as a touring singer-songwriter, an illustrator, a photographer, and a painter. She is the managing editor at American Short Fiction and is currently working on a novel and a collection of short stories.

Publications

Epiphany - Issue 36: “Neighbors” “Something Terrible”

Fractured Lit - April 21, 2026 “The Search”

Portland Review - April 6, 2026 “Thinking Futures”

  • Longlisted for the DISQUIET Prize 2024

StoryQuarterly - Issue 57 “I Am Yours”

  • Nominated for a Pushcart Prize 2025

  • Finalist in Michigan Quarterly Review’s Jesmyn Ward Prize

No Tokens - Issue 11 “Between Mist”

  • Nominated for a Pushcart Prize 2024

  • Nominated for Best of the Net 2024

Brink - No. 7, Spring 2024 “My Sister’s Foot Is Haunted”

  • Nominated for a Pushcart Prize 2024

Southern Humanities Review - Volume 55 No. 3 & 4 “This Is My Good Side”

Crazyhorse - Number 101, Spring 2022 “Yo, Woman!”

Carve Magazine - Winter 2021 “San Flaca”

  • Nominated for a Pushcart Prize 2021

Mississippi Review - Issue 47.3 - Winter 2020 “A Hundred Flying”

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