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Stephanie Land

Stephanie Land’s work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Vox, Salon, and many other outlets. She focuses on social and economic justice as a writing fellow through both the Center for Community Change and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. Her memoir, MAID, is forthcoming through editor Krishan Trotman from Hachette Books. She lives in Missoula, Montana, with her husband and two daughters.

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Portrait of the Artist as a Single Mom

“I want to be a writer,” I said out loud, maybe for the first time. I wanted college to help me to support my family, be a contributing member of society, get off food stamps. But what I wanted most of all was a book I’d written to hold in my hand.

December 29, 2017

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