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The Deliverance of Barker McRae
Released September 2025 from Mercer University Press
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Stacia Pelletier is a historical novelist, writer, and editor. She is the author of three novels: The Deliverance of Barker McRae (Mercer University Press), Accidents of Providence (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), and The Half Wives (HMH/Mariner). She has been nominated twice for the Townsend Prize in Fiction, Georgia’s highest literary honor. Stacia holds an MDiv and a PhD in the history of religion from Emory University, and she has been a Robert W. Woodruff Fellow, a W.M. Keck Foundation Fellow, and a 2025 Hearst Foundation Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society. A writer with a day job, Stacia currently serves as executive director of corporate and foundation relations at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.