STEPHANIE BALZER

Stephanie Balzer is executive director of VOICES Community Stories Past and Present, Inc., a Tucson nonprofit that empowers youth to share their personal stories through professional media outlets. Prior to moving to Tucson, she reported for The Business Journal in Phoenix, AZ. She holds a master’s degree in creative writing from The University of Arizona and is the 2009 recipient of the Mary Ann Campau Memorial Fellowship through The University of Arizona Poetry Center, which honors talented writers who strengthen and inspire our literary landscape. Her poems have appeared in Chelsea, MidAmerican Review, and CUE. Her chapbook faster, faster will be published in the fall of 2009 by CUE Editions.

HEAR STEPHANIE DISCUSS "REVENANT" on

from a Nov. 22, 2009 show