About stephen
Stephen Patrick Bell (he/him) is a writer raised in New York by Jamaican immigrants, currently based in Chicago where he produced The Moth StorySLAM. His work revolves around themes of class, race, immigrant experience, sex and sexuality, loss, grief, otherness, and neurodiversity. Featured in Publisher’s Weekly, Stephen has attended the 2023 Tin House Summer Workshop and is a 2022 Lambda Literary Fellow in fiction. He has work published or forthcoming in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Chicago Review of Books, Interview Magazine, The Millions, Electric Literature and elsewhere. Stephen lives in a classic six with his husband, where they collect art and operate a sex therapy practice. He is currently working on his first novel.
work + media
Fiction
Emerge: 2022 Lambda Fellows Anthology
Fringes of memory, excerpted from the placeholders
interviews
INTERVIEW OF PATRICK NATHAN FOR THE FUTURE WAS COLOR
Read in: Foglifter
Jamaica Kincaid and Kara Walker Made an Irreverent, Charming Kids’ Book
Read in: Harper's BAZAAR
In The Stone Home, Crystal Hana Kim Uncovers a Dark Chapter in Korean History
Read in: Interview magazine
A Wound Is Objective: A Conversation with Édouard Louis
Read in: the Los Angeles Review of Books
Weighing the Risk of Love: A Conversation with Phillip B. Williams
Read in: the Rumpus
“As Long as People Continue to Be Insensitive, Fiction Writers Will Never Go out of Business”
Read in: Electric Literature
“I Am A Novelist, Not A Diarist”: Christina Cooke on her debut novel, Broughtupsy
Read in: Chicago Review of Books
Lindsay Hunter is Redrawing the boundaries of crime fiction
Read in: The Millions
WHERE ARE THE ANCESTORS: STEPHEN PATRICK BELL IN CONVERSATION WITH JUSTIN TORRES ON BLACKOUTS
Read in: Lambda Literary Review
Yiyun Li on Comic Books, First Drafts, and Writing Children
Read in: Interview Magazine
WITH A LOVE LETTER TO QUEER BLACK FOLX, DIOR STEPHENS DRAWS A VELVET ROPE AROUND THE TABLE THEY SET FOR THEIR Community
Read in: Lambda Literary Review
From Diaspora to Self-Discovery: “Hangman” Takes the Reader on a Fascinating Journey Home
Read in: Chicago Review of Books
Dispelling the Myth of the Perfect Victim: An Interview with Kyle Dillon Hertz
Read in: Chicago Review of Books
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