Debut Collection Sometimes Creek now available!
“I love these stories! Perfect portraits of perfectly imperfect people. Like coal that never turns into diamonds, but sparks up just the same.”
—Amber Sparks, author of And I Do Not Forgive You
“These are stories of real life in all its strange wonder and quiet magic."
—Kimberly King Parsons, National Book Award Finalist, author of Black Light
"Hardscrabble and tender, these seventeen story gems gleam in Midwestern dust.”
—Amy Cipolla Barnes, author of Mother Figures, Ambrotypes, and Child Craft

Steve Fox is a writer. His work has appeared in or has been recognized by:
CutBank
LitMag
Whitefish Review
Narrative Magazine
The Masters Review
Writer’s Digest
BULL
The Iowa Review
Orca, a Literary Journal
New Ohio Review
The Midwest Review
Midwestern Gothic
The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters
Wisconsin Writers Association
Michigan Quarterly Review

2022 Awards
Jade Ring Second Place, Wisconsin Writers Association
2021 Awards
Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention
Writer’s Digest, Honorable Mention (2)
CutBank Big Sky, Small Prose Finalist
2020 Awards
Rick Bass/Montana Prize for Fiction
Jade Ring Contest Second Place, Wisconsin Writers Association
Wisconsin Academy of Arts, Sciences & Letters Fiction Contest Honorable Mention
Masters Review Anthology Contest Longlist
Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction Longlist
2019 Awards
Wisconsin Academy of Arts, Sciences & Letters Fiction Contest First Place and Honorable Mention
Narrative Fall Story Award Finalist
Iowa Review Award Finalist
Jade Ring Contest Honorable Mention
2018 Awards
Great Midwest Writing Contest First Place
Jade Ring Contest First and Second Place
Midwestern Gothic Summer Flash First Place
Masters Review Anthology Contest Short List
Steve lives in Wisconsin with his wife, three boys, and one dog.
He studies creative writing at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis and elsewhere on the Internet.
Steve gets up on Monday morning and goes to bed later that day on Saturday night.

Recent Stories
Goat Milk
Yogovah
Dumplings
Peristalsmosis
Ronny
Then It Would Be Raining
Upcoming events
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01/26 | Global
Publication Day!
Official Publication Date of Sometimes Creek! Thank you, Cornerstone Press!
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2/2 | Minneapolis, MN
Magers & Quinn 7:00-9:00PM
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
Sometimes Creek - Reading and Conversation with Allison Wyss.
Register at the MQ website.
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2/18 | Red Wing, MN
Fair Trade Books
1:00-2:30 PM
320 Bush Street, Red Wing, MNReading at Fair Trade Books
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2/21 | Hudson, WI
Hop & Barrel Brewing 6:30-7:30 PM
A reading from the story collection’s home town.
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2/24 | Stevens Point, WI
Official Launch Party — 6:00 PM
Reading with Nikki Kallio (Finding the Bones) and Jenny Robertson (Hoist House) at UWSP Dreyfus University Center (DUC) Theater 110
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5/4 | Madison, WI
Mystery to Me Bookseller 6:00 PM
Reading & conversation with Doug Moe
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7/20 | Missoula, MT
Reading at Fact and Fiction Books, 7:00 PM
220 N. Higgins, Missoula, MT