Stephanie Mullings

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Stephanie Mullings is a fiction writer from Chicago. She is a graduate of Boston University's Creative Writing MFA program, where she received the Leslie Epstein Global Fellowship. Additionally, Stephanie is a recipient of the Roy Cowden Memorial Fellowship, awarded for short fiction at the University of Michigan. Stephanie is a winner of the 2021 First Pages Prize and a finalist of the 2021 Arkansas International Emerging Writer's Prize in Fiction. Presently, she is a doctoral student in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California. Her writing has appeared in Open Ceilings Literary Magazine, Bat City Review, and the Los Angeles Review.

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Cover Photo: This illustration shows a man and a woman sleeping side by side. Around them, bubbles in pink and purple and blue float around their heads.
The Dreams that Float Above Our Heads

When Lilith and Gerald were married, it was because they should be.