Stacey Richter

{{Short description|American writer (born 1965)}}

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Stacey Richter is an American writer of short fiction. Richter has been the recipient of four Pushcart Prizes, a National Prize for Fiction and the National Magazine Award.Aaron Gilbreath, [http://www.portlandreview.pdx.edu/PRrecent_story_InterviewStaceyRichter.html "An Interview with Stacey Richter "] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070907172151/http://www.portlandreview.pdx.edu/PRrecent_story_InterviewStaceyRichter.html |date=2007-09-07 }}, Portland Review Literary Journal, 2007, retrieved 13 June 2009 Her first collection of stories, My Date with Satan was published in 1999. In 2007, Richter published her second collection, Twin Study, which includes the Pushcart Award-winning story "The Land of Pain".JK Mason, [http://www.ourstories.us/Fall%202007%20Issue/Interview_SRichter.htm Interview with a Master: Stacey Richter], Our Stories, Vol. 2 Issue I, Fall 2007, retrieved 13 June 2009

Richter was born in Prince George's County, Maryland on April 3, 1965, the daughter of Valerie and Herschel Richter, a cardiologist.Vicki Cabot, [http://www.jewishaz.com/issues/story.mv?070622+watching "Watching – and Writing"], Jewish News of Greater Phoenix, Volume 59, No. 40, June 22, 2007/Tamuz 6 5767, retrieved 13 June 2009 She was raised in Phoenix, Arizona. Richter earned a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master's in Creative Writing from Brown University. She has resided in Tucson since 1992.