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Trace Ramsey is a recipient of the 2017-2018 North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship in Literature, the 2015 Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artists Award in Literature, a 2015 contributor in non-fiction at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and winner of the 2016 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize from the North Carolina Literary Review. Trace was also a finalist for the 2026 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize.

Trace’s recent publications include two spoken word albums from Hello America Stereo Cassette and essays in North Carolina Literary Review, At Length Magazine, Hippocampus Magazine and I Don’t Know How to Help You, a compilation zine from Pioneers Press. In December 2014 Trace received a certificate in documentary arts in nonf ...more

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