About stephen
Stephen Patrick Bell is a writer, editor, and producer raised in New York by Jamaican immigrants, currently based in Chicago, where he has produced shows for The Moth StorySLAM and 2nd Story. His work revolves around themes of class, race, immigrant experience, sex and sexuality, loss, grief, otherness, and neurodiversity. Featured in Publisher’s Weekly, A 2022 Lambda Literary Fellow in fiction, a Summer 2023 Tin House fellow, and a 2025 Kenyon Review Writers Workshop Peter Taylor Fellow, Stephen serves as the interviews editor at Foglifter Journal and Press. His work has appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, Interview Magazine, the Chicago Review of Books, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. he 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.
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Fiction
Emerge: 2022 Lambda Fellows Anthology
Fringes of memory, excerpted from the placeholders
interviews
Susan Cheever by Stephen Patrick Bell
Read in: bomb
Stephen Patrick Bell in conversation with Grayson Thompson
Read in: Foglifter
“The Best Way to Snoop Around a Place Is to Tell People You’re Writing About It”: An Interview with Keir Graff
Read in: ChiCago review of books
The Brooklyn Rail New Social Environment #1233: Morgan Jerkins and Stephen Patrick Bell
View Event: The Brooklyn Rail
I'm More of a Literary Exhibitionist Than an Actual One | A Conversation with Edmund White
Read in: Foglifter
“What if We Could Fall in Love All Over Again?” An Interview with Brittany Newell
Read in: ChiCago review of books
“If we don’t help each other through this, we won’t get through it at all”: an Interview with Gabrielle Korn
Read in: ChiCago review of books
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” A Conversation with Dr. Amina Gautier
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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