Lannie Stabile

Lannie Stabile (she/her) is the winner of OutWrite’s 2020 Chapbook Competition in Poetry; the winning chapbook, “Strange Furniture,” is out with Neon Hemlock Press. In addition to being a five-time winner of Marias at Sampaguitas’ The Story So Far Contest, she has won Overheard Lit's Flash Fiction Contest, Lunch Ticket's Twitter Poetry Contest, and Tiny Spoon’s Erasure Contest. She is also a back-to-back finalist for the 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 Glass Chapbook Series and back-to-back semifinalist for the Button Poetry 2018 and 2019 Chapbook Contests. Stabile currently holds the position of Managing Editor at Barren Magazine and is a member of the MMPR Collective. She obtained a Creative Writing degree from Eastern Michigan University, where she also met her wife, Kaitlyn – a sixth grade teacher. The two live in Livonia, MI with three idolatrous cats (Abigail, Fiyero, and Algonac).

Early Life
Lannie grew up in Dearborn Heights, MI, in the sliver between Dearborn and Inkster.

Goals
Stabile's immediate goal is to one day worm her way into Button Poetry's heart, as the winner of their annual chapbook contest. Same goes for Glass Poetry. She also plans to win numerous fellowships, grants, and awards before she's through. Look out! On a more serious note, Stabile has worked through years of calcified trauma by writing and reading poetry. She hopes to provide similar guidance to others who have also experienced parental neglect, domestic violence, and sexual assault.

Inspirations
Stabile is inspired by friendship, improvement, and self-exorcism. She has found kinship in works by Mary Oliver, Chen Chen, Sabrina Benaim, Jason B. Crawford, Rota, and Dorianne Laux.

Philosophy
She often says while some write like a turtleneck sweater, she writes like a Hawaiian shirt. Which is just a kooky way of saying, "Relax, have fun, and be colorful."

Works
1) Good Morning to Everyone Except Men Who Name Their Dogs Zeus (forthcoming chapbook) - Cephalo Press

2) Strange Furniture (chapbook) - Neon Hemlock Press

3) Little Masticated Darlings (micro-chapbook) - Wildpressed Books

4) Victim #4, or That's an Inventive Way to Store an Axe - SWWIM (Jan 2021 *This poem won Second Place in the SWWIM For-the-Fun-of-It Contest)

5) How Many Hands Does a Trout Have - Orange Blossom Review (Winter 2020)

6) On Pennsylvania Road - Frontier Poetry (Sep 2020)

7) How to Define Depression - Anomaly : Anomalous Press (Fall 2020)

8) How Guilt Has Rendered Us Unrecognizable - Yes Poetry (May 2020)