Chrissy Stegman is a Baltimore-based poet and writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Rattle, MER, ONE ART, River Heron Review, Stone Circle Review, Gargoyle, Ghost Parachute, Fictive Dream, and other literary journals.
Chrissy is the winner of the 2025 Ellen Conroy Kennedy Poetry Prize and a recipient of a Best of Rattle Award. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, she has also received multiple Best of the Net nominations and a 2026 Best New Poets nomination from Okay Donkey. Her work was shortlisted for the 2024 DISQUIET Literary Prize and the 2026 Wigleaf Top 50.
Her fellowships and scholarships include support from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, Kettle Pond at Paul Smith College, and the Unterberg Poetry Center. In 2026, she received a Poetry Merit Scholarship to the Tinker Mountain Writers’ Workshop at Hollins University and was selected for the Kenyon Review Residential Writing Workshop in Poetry. Find out more about her writing and other art projects at www.chrissystegman.com
