Stephen J. Wallace

STEPHEN J. WALLACE says he is a writer trapped in an engineer’s body, or vice versa. His first novel, Hazardous Lies, about an accident in a chemical plant, received numerous recognitions and awards, including the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Gold Award; Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal; Winner of the NYC Big Book Award; Finalist in the Storytrade Book Awards and a Top Pick in the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award. His latest novel, Average Civil Employee: A Novel of Bureaucratic Absurdities, was a Finalist in the 2026 International Book Awards, a BookLife Editor’s Pick, and received a 5-star review from Readers’ Favorite. His short stories have appeared in the Schuylkill Valley Journal, the Vita Poetica Journal, and the Mark Literary Review. He has lived in the Washington, DC, area for several years but occasionally visits his home state of Kentucky.