Steven Potter

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Steve Potter is a writer and editor from New Hampshire currently based in Western Massachusetts. He received an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from New York University, where he served as a two-year Starworks Fellow. 

His fiction has appeared in Conjunctions and Narrative Magazine, been nominated for the 2020 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, and been honorable-mentioned in Best American Short Stories 2020. He was also a recipient of the Adirondack Center for Writing's 2019 Anne LaBastille Memorial Writers Residency.

Steve has taught creative writing at New York University and through Duke University TIP. Also a freelance writer, he reviews literary fiction for Kirkus Reviews and writes business articles for the executive search firm Odgers Berndtson. He is at work on two novels.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Short Stories 2020*

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