stephanie roberts is a citizen of Canada, Panama, and the United States. Born in Panama, she grew up in Brooklyn, New York and eventually emigrated to Canada where she lived in and around Montreal before settling in the Beauharnois region of Quebec.

In 2001, she began writing essays and poetry and had a short essay published in the Montreal Gazette. She attended her first writing conference in 2002. In 2010, she was slected to participate in a poetry master class, sponsored by the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in Montreal, with Pulitzer Prize winning poet Professor Paul Muldoon.

In 2013, she self-published As We Are, a collection of short fiction exploring varying aspects of love and loss. Her first self-published poetry collection, The Melting Potential of Fire, is part travel journal, part love letter, set against extensive travel through southern Italy and Tuscany.

In the last three years, she’s been nominated for the Pushcart Prize four times, and Best of the Net three times.

Books by stephanie roberts

rushes from the river disappointment