Stephanie Rogers

Stephanie Rogers grew up in Middletown, Ohio and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. In 2003, she received a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Bachelor of Arts in Women’s Studies from The Ohio State University, where she also won the Citino Undergraduate Poetry Prize. She completed her Master’s in English and Comparative Literature in 2005 from the University of Cincinnati, and in 2007, she received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Poetry from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her poems “On the Occasion of Her Annual Disappointment” and “Symphony for  Red” were selected for inclusion in the emerging writers anthology Best New Poets (2009 and 2006). Her work has also appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Southern Review, Pleiades, Cream  City Review, The Pinch, Third Coast, and Madison Review, among others. In 2008, she and Amber Leab co-founded the feminist film review website Bitch Flicks, and her feminist commentary has also appeared at Ms. Magazine, Shakesville, I Will Not Diet, The Opinioness of the World, Not Another Wave, and The Good Men Project. She lives in a very tiny studio apartment in Brooklyn where she runs Women Occupy, a tumblr she created to highlight women who participate in the Occupy Movement.