Meet Stephanie Chrismon

Stephanie Chrismon is a writer, scholar-educator and facilitator. She identifies as masculine of center and has presented on various topics related to equity and diversity, as well as pop culture, literature and art as critical tools in exploring social justice and dismantling oppression. Core to all of Stephanie's work is Afrofuturism, which Stephanie views as a way of looking at the past through a historical and fantastical lens and using those lessons learned to reshape the future.

Stephanie is also a higher education professional with nearly 15 years of experience working with students, including work in student activities and student affairs, admissions, and academic advising. Outside of work, she is engaged in the Twin Cities writing community; she was a participant in the 2016-2017 Loft Mentor Series in Poetry and Creative Prose and was a fellow in the 2015 Emerging Writers' Mentor Program sponsored by the Givens Foundation for African American Literature.

She holds a M.F.A. in fiction writing from Hamline University and a B.A. in political science from the University of Minnesota, Morris. She writes both creative nonfiction and urban/dystopian fantasy stories through which her passion for topics around race, gender and sexuality are explored. Her writing has appeared in The Root, Black Girl Nerds, MN Artists, and Water~Stone Review. Her debut novel (under her pen name dc edwards), Bright City, was published in 2017.