Nancy Stephan is a memoirist and poet who writes on topics of consciousness, nature, and grief. Her preferred poetic form is free verse, but she also dabbles with the pantoum and villanelle.

Nancy was born in Gary, Indiana, a small steel town on the shores of Lake Michigan just outside Chicago. She now calls Atlanta home. With a deep love of language, she has shaped both her professional path and creative work around the beauty and power of the written word.

Her work has appeared in journals across the net. She won her first writing award at the age of 10 in a competition sponsored by the Daughters of the American Revolution. She later placed ninth among more than 19,000 submissions in the Writer’s Digest Fiction Competition for her short story, The Grape Tree, and, in 2012, received a Georgia Author of the Year Award (GAYA) for her memoir, The Truth About Butterflies. This and her most recent title, Flight: Notes on the Out-of-Body Experience, are available wherever books are sold.

Nancy served for many years as adviser to the Writer’s Circle, a literary community housed at Georgia State University, and as a board member with the Georgia Writers Association.

She earned B.S. and M.A. degrees in Communication and Professional Writing (MAPW), respectively. She also holds a graduate certificate in Ethics.

Nancy is a mystic at heart. Her quest for meaning lingers at the intersection of reality and the nature of consciousness. She writes to share her perspectives on these subjects but also to explore her experiences of the transcendent and the mundane—two beautiful themes that are often indistinguishable.