Stephanie M. Flood

Author, Blogger, Art Educator 

Born orphaned in the Philippines. Adopted in the United States. Teaching and supporting libraries in Arizona and Hawaii. Favorite things: meditation, nature, art and journaling.

Biography

Stephanie Flood {birth name: Desiree Maru} was born as an orphan in Cebu City, Philippines and later adopted in the United States. She currently has a background in creative writing, mixed media and photography. She hails with a Master of Library and Information Science, a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, and Bachelor of Science in Journalism. Recently in 2022, she published her first middle school literary magazine My Hawaiian Identity in a premier Creative Writing summer school course that she taught with Kamehameha Schools in Honolulu, Hawaii. She also taught and published a middle school yearbook with Kamehameha Schools in 2021. As a Pushcart Prize Nominee, her fiction, mixed media and essays have been featured in numerous literary magazines and journals since 2015. Mixed media has also been featured at adoptee conferences, literary magazines and blogs. Additionally, she published the first-of-its-kind hybrid mixed media thesis in her MFA Creative Writing Program in Northern Arizona University, while hosting Creative Writing Workshops and working in schools and libraries. Stephanie has been a member of InterCountry Adoptee Voices (ICAV) and a critical ICAV blogger and social media activist supporting Intercountry adoptee voices since 2017. 

Credits
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Published Anthology: Third Flatiron's Best of 2015 Anthology, Book 14

Mixed Media: Nzuir: The Online Journal of Umoja Community, Oyster River Pages, The Tishman Review, Helen Literary Magazine, The Sonder Review, Storm Cellar, The Healing Muse

Essays: Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, The Writing Disorder, Journey Magazine, Hole in The Donut Cultural Travel

Fiction: Third Flatiron Anthologies, The Story Shack, On the Rusk, Gone Lawn Journal

Nonfiction: The Flagstaff Live, The Noise, The Daily Sun, Mountain Living Magazine

Adoptee Media: Adoptee Voices, InterCountry Adoptee Voices (ICAV), Overcoming Odds, AdopTree Project: Exploring Asian Adoption Narratives, The Write Place at the Write Time