Steve Potter is a New England-born writer, editor, and journalist.

 

His fiction has appeared in Conjunctions, The Drift, and Narrative Magazine; his stories have also been nominated for the 2020 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, and been honorable-mentioned in Best American Short Stories 2020. His essays have appeared in Adirondack Life, Ascent, Climbing Magazine, Outside Magazine, and elsewhere. 

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He received an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from New York University, where he served as a two-year Starworks Fellow. He ​was also a recipient of the Adirondack Center for Writing's 2019 Anne LaBastille Memorial Writers Residency. 

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Steve is a regular contributor at Outside Magazine and Climbing Magazine and formerly served as Climbing's digital editor. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his wife, Emma Hine.