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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, a Hambidge Fellow, and was awarded a 2025 Hearst Foundation Fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society (declined). The Deliverance of Barker McRae won the 2025 Forward Indies bronze prize for historical fiction, was nominated for Georgia Author of the Year and a Pushcart Prize, and was named a Kirkus Indie of the Month in March 2026.
A writer with a day job, Stacia currently serves as executive director of corporate and foundation relations at Wake Forest University 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. She and her husband and their border collie, Eli, divide their time between Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Dahlonega, Georgia.