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Stacia Pelletier is the author of Accidents of Providence and The Half Wives (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner), both shortlisted for the Townsend Prize in Fiction. She holds an MDiv and a PhD in religion from Emory University. She has been a Robert W. Woodruff Fellow, a W.M. Keck Foundation Fellow, and has worked as a speechwriter, fundraiser, editor, creative writing teacher, and small business owner. Her newest novel, The Deliverance of Barker McRae, will be published in Fall 2025 by Mercer University Press. She lives in northeast Georgia.