Author Bio

Stefanie Wielkopolan is a poet and educator with deep midwestern roots. She is in love with Western Pennsylvania and calls Pittsburgh home. Her poetry collection, “Home is a Sweater,” was published in 2023 by Finishing Line Press, and her first book of poems, “Border Theory,” was published in 2011 by Black Coffee Press. She currently teaches writing to middle school students and works as an administrator for a college writing center. When she isn’t working, she can be found writing, napping, reading, anxiously trying to figure out the world, or watching reruns of “Newhart.”