Lindsey Steffes

Lindsey Steffes was awarded the Juniper Prize for Fiction for her novel Gichigami, which will be published by the University of Massachusetts Press in March 2025. She studied fiction at University of Wisconsin, Madison and has an MFA from University of California, Riverside, where she was mentored by Jane Smiley and Susan Straight. Her work has been recognized by Glimmer Train and featured in Midwestern Gothic, Atticus Review, Black Heart Magazine, and Sad Girl Diaries. During her time at UC Riverside, she was awarded the Dean’s MFA Graduate Fellowship and received a scholarship to attend the Community of Writers workshop in Olympic Valley, California. She has taught creative writing as a fellow for the Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts. She currently lives in Minneapolis with her husband and two dogs, and much of their free time is spent up on the shores of Lake Superior, where the novel is set.