Dream Straw

Mariflo Stephens has read or discussed her work on Oprah and Oxygen network. Her literary work has been anthologized three times, and in 1993 she issued her own anthology, Some Say Tomato. Her fiction is included in Worlds in their Words: Contemporary American Women Writers and her essays appear in The Barbie Chronicles: A Real Doll Turns Forty and Strategies for Successful Writing. Awarded two grants for fiction from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, she won the Sherwood Anderson Short Story Contest in 2008 and was the second place winner in 2012. Her work has been published in The Washington Post, Iowa Woman, the Virginia Quarterly Review, The Walden Review, Catalyst: A Magazine for Social Change, and Zone 3, among other publications. Stephens received her M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Virginia where she won the Thomas Griffiths Prize for the short story.