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Lyn  Michele Stevens

Fiction Writer

Stay Tuned! Debut novel coming soon

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In Care_Two children in jeans on beach facing the ocean
Short Fiction, section 1

Short Fiction

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The Wrong Crowd_Pictogram wheelchair on light blue background

The Wrong Crowd

New Pop Lit

October 

In Care_Two children in jeans on beach facing the ocean

In Care

Runner, Issue One

(First Prize Winner)

August 2025

Executive Assistant_Keyboard in front of screen on wooden desk

Executive Assistant

Pangyrus

July 2025

Love is an Oval _ Two brown eggs on a wooden tabletop

Love is an Oval

The MacGuffin

April 2025
 

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Awesome Nuts & Chews

The Saturday Evening Post

July 31, 2020

Gorilla Mother_Big black Gorilla sitting in front of greenery

Gorilla Mother 

Sequestrum, 2022

Lucky People_Couple with umbrella sitting outside in front of a window

Lucky People

Pen + Brush

Nov 2019, Volume 4

Butterly House_Beautiful Monarch butterfly hanging on leaf

Butterfly House

Wising Up Anthology

Spring 2020

Mara Mermaid_Girl floating backwards in sunlit water

Mara Mermaid

Santa Ana River Review 

Feb. 2019

Dream child_Boy walking in canyon of buidlings

Dream Child

The Main Street Rag

Aug. 2018

Volume 23, Number 3

 

Mountain Climber_Mountain climber shadow figure between two mountains in sunset

Mountain Climber

Prism Review

Feb. 2015, Issue 2017

Cleaning House_Spray bottle with cleaning fluid on window sill

Cleaning House

Wordrunner e-Chapbooks

​Mar. 2018

Family Safety Plan_Little boy sitting with his hands covering his face

Family Safety Plan

Saturday's Child Mag.

Summer 2014

Fear of Heights_Two girls from above lying on checkered blanket

Fear of Heights

Eclectica

​Jan. 2017

Shopping_Neatly stacked pile of red carpets

Shopping

American Literary Review, 

Spring 2002, Volume X111

Lyn is currently reading

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The Limits
by 
Nell Freudenberger

Lyn's Reading List
Bio

About Lyn

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Lyn’s short stories have appeared in Prism Review, Greensboro Review, Eclectica Magazine, the American Literary Review, and The Saturday Evening Post, among other literary journals.


The Vermont Studio Center awarded her a scholarship, and while in residence, Lyn was mentored by Margot Livesey. In 2014 Lyn won the Saturday’s Child Press Short Story Contest.

 
In addition to being a writer, Lyn is politically active and volunteers as a reading instructor for children in the South Bronx and is an English as a Second Language tutor for adults in Yonkers.

 

She is a devoted grandmother to five beautiful grandchildren. Lyn is a life-long New Yorker. 

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