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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

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Average rating: 3.72 · 10,379 ratings · 1,993 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	Fatal Throne by Candace Fleming (Goodreads Author), M.T. Anderson, Jennifer Donnelly (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 5,314 ratings — published 2018 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wicked Girls 3.34 avg rating — 2,267 ratings — published 2010 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath 3.79 avg rating — 1,407 ratings — published 2007 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Language of Fire: Joan of Arc Reimagined 3.75 avg rating — 543 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hideous Love: The Story of the Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein 3.36 avg rating — 522 ratings — published 2013 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Things Left Unsaid: A Novel in Poems by Stephanie Hemphill, TK (Illustrator) 3.60 avg rating — 387 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sisters of Glass 3.27 avg rating — 422 ratings — published 2012 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Easy 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No Place For A Woman - An American Public Media/American RadioWorks Documentary on sexual harassment face by women in the Northern Minnesota Iron Range Ore Mines during the 1970's and 1980's 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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

tags: gilded-cage, ladies, poetry

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“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

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“I cannot be assured of
exactly what I created
be it madness and monster
or beauty and light.”
― Stephanie Hemphill, Hideous Love: The Story of the Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein

tags: monsters

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