StarGirl’s first novella, A Single Sparrow, placed quarter-finalist in the New Century Writer 2003 Competition; most recently, her story “Bird Letters” was commended in the Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Competition.
In addition, her story “Wailing Station” (not the version posted below, but one much tighter and well-workshopped) placed second in the Toasted Cheese “Dead of Winter 2006” contest.
Her short fiction has been featured in The Adirondack Review, Afternoon, Barbaric Yawp, Bewildering Stories, Chick Flicks, The Circle, Citizen Culture, I Like Monkeys, New Witch Magazine, Sinfully Twisted, Toasted Cheese, The Taj Mahal Review and a host of others, including the anthologies Chaos Theory, Every Other Tuesday and As Seen…
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StarGirl’s first novella, A Single Sparrow, placed quarter-finalist in the New Century Writer 2003 Competition; most recently, her story “Bird Letters” was commended in the Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Competition.
In addition, her story “Wailing Station” (not the version posted below, but one much tighter and well-workshopped) placed second in the Toasted Cheese “Dead of Winter 2006” contest.
Her short fiction has been featured in The Adirondack Review, Afternoon, Barbaric Yawp, Bewildering Stories, Chick Flicks, The Circle, Citizen Culture, I Like Monkeys, New Witch Magazine, Sinfully Twisted, Toasted Cheese, The Taj Mahal Review and a host of others, including the anthologies Chaos Theory, Every Other Tuesday and As Seen in VT; she was an annual contributor to the now-defunct MudRock: Stories & Tales, Waxing & Waning, and The Wheel. Her studies in poetry resulted in appearances in The Underwood Review and Poetry Motel, and part of her work was featured in Missing, an exhibit sponsored by the New York Historical Society and City Lore.
She is a recurring lecturer at the Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association’s annual conference and a former frequent speaker at Norwalk Community College, and chairs the long-running writer’s community Pencils! Writing Workshop in Wilton, Connecticut. She holds a BA in Writing & Literature at Burlington College in Vermont and is currently purusing her MFA at Goddard. Ultimately, she would like a professorial position at a college or university to better support her career in fiction.
Recently, StarGirl has been most influenced by the writing of Joyce Carol Oates, Edgar Allan Poe, Haruki Murakami, Koji Suzuki, Gina Ochsner and David Means, among at least thirty others. She is constantly looking for ways to blend her favorite genres’ hallmarks, film’s visual qualities, and literature’s human themes in her writing, and she considers revising and refining her manuscripts the highlight of the creative process.
Although she loves participating in the melee of Coney Island’s famed Mermaid Parade and the clean-up of the Bronx Zoo, StarGirl plans to, one day, re-purchase her family’s former camp in the Adirondacks, where she can spend summers writing with abandon. Currently, she lives with three cats, and has been known to rip through one pack of cigarettes and a bottle of wine if the muse is really singing to her.
For more information on Star Girl, visit her website at www.kristipetersen.net. For more information on Pencils! Writing Workshop, visit www.pencilswritingworkshop.com.
Short Stories Published: 2007
“Deconstructing Fireflies,” Beacons of Tomorrow Anthology II, pending November 2007
“Candle Garden,” The Taj Mahal Review, June 2007
“Wailing Station,” Toasted Cheese, March 2007
“Wisdom,” Bewildering Stories, Issue #238, March 2007
Short Stories Published: 2006
“Camping,” Chick Flicks, Issue 10, Dec. 2006
“Deconstructing Fireflies,” The Illuminata, Dec. 2006
“Ghost Light,” Barbaric Yawp, Dec. 2006
“The House Sitter,” Purpleverse, Nov. 2006
“The Attack of the Plot Bunnies,” As Seen in VT, August, 2006
“Bird Letters,” The Circle, Spring 2006
“Down in the Green,” Sinfully Twisted, Issue #2, 2006
“Adam’s Cottage,” MudRock: Stories & Tales, Winter, 2006
“Divining Napkins,” NewWitch Magazine, Winter 2006
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