Stephanie Hemphill





Stephanie Hemphill

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Stephanie Hemphill's first novel in poems, Things Left Unsaid, was published by Hyperion in 2005 and was awarded the 2006 Myra Cohn Livingston Award for Excellence in Poetry by the Children's Literature Council of Southern California.

Her second novel, a verse portrait of Sylvia Plath, Your Own, Sylvia was published by Knopf in March 2007. A third novel in verse for teens, Wicked Girls, a verse story of the Salem witch trials, will come out from Hyperion in the spring of 2009.

Stephanie received an SCBWI Magazine Merit Award in Poetry and chaired the PEN Award's Children's Literature Committee. She has been writing, studying and presenting poetry for adults and children for many years at UCLA, the University of Illinois (where she received...more


Average rating: 3.46 · 1,992 ratings · 516 reviews · 6 distinct works · Similar authors
Wicked Girls
3.3 of 5 stars 3.30 avg rating — 962 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions
Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse P...
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 610 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions
Sisters of Glass
3.15 of 5 stars 3.15 avg rating — 193 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions
Things Left Unsaid: A Novel...
3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 219 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions
Hideous Love: The Story of ...
2.5 of 5 stars 2.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — expected publication 2013 — 3 editions
Easy
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007
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“Learning to be a lady / is like learning / to live within a shell, / to be a crustacean encased / in a small white / uncomfortable world.”
Stephanie Hemphill, Sisters of Glass

“I fret for Sylvia.
She appears anchored

to the idea of sinking,
which is silly when she so clearly

soars above almost everyone.”
Stephanie Hemphill, Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath

“She said the night was March and black
and that the hill where he kissed her
and enveloped her in his arms
was a sea of grass and she rooted
to the ground like a sapling,
like it was natural and yet
all created for her moment of romance.”
Stephanie Hemphill, Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath

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