Stephanie Dupal originally hails from Montreal, Canada, by way of the coastal town of Rimouski, in northern Quebec. At age fifteen, she left home to live in Utah with one of her four sisters, and at twenty-one she left the continent for Italy. She speaks French, English, and Italian fluently. 

 

She teaches college composition and literature as a professor of English in Virginia, where she lives with her husband, five children, and too many animals. They hope to add chickens and bees to their menagerie, and Stephanie dreams of spending her days writing and learning obscure crafts like paper quilling and lace tatting. She conducts fruitless searches for the perfect Irish brown bread recipe while wishing she were writing from a quaint cottage on the coast of Dingle, Cornwall, or Brittany.  

 

Her writing most recently appeared in Muddy Backroads, edited by Bonnie Jo Campbell and Luanne Smith, Fiction International, Little Patuxent Review, GRIFFEL (Norway), Storgy Magazine (UK), The Stonecoast Review, Eastern Iowa Review, The Northern Virginia Review, Maryland Literary Review, and Broad River Review, among others. She is the recipient of the 2018 Best Prose Award from TNVR and she was named a finalist for the 2019 Ron Rash Award in Fiction, for the 2019 Sonora Review Essay Contest, and for the 2019 New Letters Publication Award in Fiction. Two of her stories were nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

 

She has written two long works: a short story collection, Field Notes from the Society for Goodwilled Rebellion, and a novel, The Mothfoot of Denis Sartor, which she hopes to see in print soon. She completed an MFA in fiction from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

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Previous versions of her short story collection Field Notes from the Society for Goodwilled Rebellion (as The Kindness of Terrible People) were named a finalist for the George Garrett Fiction Prize and the C&R Press Fiction Award and longlisted for the Unleash Press Book Award.

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An avid reader, Stephanie counts the following authors among her favorites: Robert and Richard Bausch, Wilkie Collins, Maryse Conde, France Daigle, Patricia Eakins, Emily Fridlund, Mary Gaitskill, Mavis Gallant, David Grand, Daisy Johnson, Barbara Kingsolver, Alice Munro, Rene Steinke, Jeanette Winterson, Meg Wolitzer, and the grand sorceress on whose altar she worships, Carol Shields.