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

SOMETIMES CREEK cover image, with blurb from Amber Sparks, author of AND I DO NOT FORGIVE YOU: "Perfect portraits of perfectly imperfect people."

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

  • 01/26 | Global

    Publication Day!

    Official Publication Date of Sometimes Creek! Thank you, Cornerstone Press!

  • 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.

  • 2/18 | Red Wing, MN

    Fair Trade Books
    1:00-2:30 PM
    320 Bush Street, Red Wing, MN

    Reading at Fair Trade Books

  • 2/21 | Hudson, WI

    Hop & Barrel Brewing 6:30-7:30 PM

    A reading from the story collection’s home town.

  • 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

  • 5/4 | Madison, WI

    Mystery to Me Bookseller 6:00 PM

    Reading & conversation with Doug Moe

    Tickets are free but quantities limited.

  • 7/20 | Missoula, MT

    Reading at Fact and Fiction Books, 7:00 PM

    220 N. Higgins, Missoula, MT

What Steve is reading now. (And other things.)