About Stacey:
Stacey Strange is an author and multidisciplinary artist based in New England.
Her written works include novels, essays, poetry, and works for the stage, which have been published in A Practical Wedding, and YANA Magazine, among others. Her work has been called ‘As smart as it was entertaining—and it was very entertaining indeed.’ (The New Haven Independent)
Her other artistic works include photography, aerial short films, touring circus productions, and original music for the Guzheng, among other things. She is never not creating something.
Originally from Minnesota, she studied creative writing, classics, and film at Vassar College, tempered with four years in the school’s recreational circus club. She made it two whole months into graduate school in New York City before realizing she hated New York (she already knew this) and that she didn’t want to go into academia (she already knew this).
She swapped a closet-sized bedroom in Brooklyn for a blocks-long abandoned warehouse in Connecticut, and academia for studying aerial fabric. Though she’s never looked back, she has moved into a legally habitable dwelling.
Since then, she has accidentally-on-purpose made circus her primary career, as the founder and creative director of Air Temple Arts, one of the largest circus studios in New England. A dedicated coach and performer with over fifteen years of experience, she has taught myriad circus arts to hundreds of students, and performed internationally and across the United States.
Recently she won a silver medal for her performance at the Hubei Chutian Star Guzheng Competition in China, which sees thousands of competitors. She has been featured on the national PBS show START-UP, had her photography published in the New York Times, and has the most expressive feet one YouTube commenter has ever seen.
When she’s not writing, or upside-down she can be found playing pinball, wandering in the woods, or making soup.