The Deliverance of Barker McRae
“A barnburner of a novel featuring some truly unforgettable characters”
– Kirkus starred review; Indie of the Month 3/2026
2026 Georgia Author of the Year nominee
Stacia Pelletier is a historical novelist, writer, and editor. Nominated twice for the Townsend Prize in Fiction, Georgia’s highest literary honor, she is the author of three novels: The Deliverance of Barker McRae (Mercer University Press, 2025), Accidents of Providence (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), and The Half Wives (Mariner/Harper). She has been a Robert W. Woodruff Fellow, a W.M. Keck Foundation Fellow, and was awarded a 2025 Hearst Foundation Fellowship 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, and was previously the speechwriter for the president of Emory University. She holds an MDiv and a PhD in the history of religion from Emory.