Stacia Pelletier

Stacia Pelletier is a historical novelist twice nominated for the Townsend Prize, Georgia’s highest literary honor for fiction, and the author of three novels: The Deliverance of Barker McRae (Mercer University Press, 2025), Accidents of Providence (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012, published under Stacia M. Brown), and The Half Wives (Mariner/Harper, 2017). She has been a Robert W. Woodruff Fellow, a W.M. Keck Foundation Fellow, and was awarded a 2025 Hearst Foundation Fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society. A writer with a day job, Stacia currently serves as executive director of corporate and foundation relations at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and was previously the speechwriter for the president of Emory University. She holds an MDiv and a PhD in the history of religion from Emory.