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Stefanie Brook Trout

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in Greenville, Michigan, The United States

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Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry

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Stefanie Brook Trout (she/her/hers) is a Michigan writer and poet.

Stefanie edited Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland (2014 with Lance Sacknoff and Xavier Cavazos) and Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America (2016 with Taylor Brorby) – both by Ice Cube Press. Stefanie holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Environment from Iowa State University. She was an Environmental Writing Fellow at the Iowa Lakeside Laboratory and previously edited nonfiction for Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment. Stefanie has been a contributor to The Review Review, Orion Magazine, and An Idea.

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	Fracture: Essay Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America by Taylor Brorby (Editor), Stefanie Brook Trout (Goodreads Author) 4.18 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2016 — 3 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
	Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland by Lance M. Sacknoff (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Xavier Cavazos (Editor), Stefanie Brook Trout (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.63 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2014 — 2 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

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“Here I find the true nature of the tree - not in the bulk of its shape but in the way its form alters my vision of the world.”
― Stefanie Brook Trout, Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland

tags: nature, spring, trees

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“I prefer to get fat on honey.”
― Stefanie Brook Trout, Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland

tags: bees, corn-syrup, honey

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“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
― Rachel Carson

tags: destruction, ecology, reality, universe, wonder

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“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

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“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

tags: books, infinite-jest

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“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
― E. B. White

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“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”
― Galileo Galilei

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