Stephanie R. Pearmain

Stephanie Pearmain received an MFA in Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults from Hollins University. She teaches courses in Children's and Young Adult Literature and publishing and is the Coordinator of Undergraduate English Internships. She has been a Reader for the Andrea Brown Literary Agency as well as a book reviewer for Children's Literature Database (picture books through novels), and a Fiction Reader for YARN, an award-winning online young adult literary magazine. She oversees Pine Reads Review, an online children's and YA literature publication which is run by UA undergraduates. Her first children's book was published in 2012 by Scholastic and her writing has been published in anthologies and magazines, including the Nancy Drew Anthology. Her next children's books are forthcoming from Bloomsbury (May, 2027), FSG Macmillan (Winter 2027), and Penguin Random House (Summer 2028).