Stacy Rollins is a writer, visual artist, singer, Tarot reader, and fitness enthusiast who currently lives in Philadelphia, PA. Her first complete sentence--spoken at nine months of age--was, “I’ll get you.” It has served as a guiding principle ever since. She earned her M.A. in Creative Writing at FSU and has authored two books, Truer Faults and Learning to Read. Her other crowning achievements include designing her own religion, “Stanism,” while in law school, and also dropping out of law school. Her poetry and prose has appeared in Atticus Review, Everyday Genius, Diversion Press, Black Heart Magazine, Crack the Spine, Poetry Quarterly, New York Dreaming, Garbanzo, Nailed Magazine, Spine, Shantih, The Oleander Review, Rat's Ass Review, Helen, and Armarolla.
My work.
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Published Poetry & Prose
A smattering of my published work, with links to the extant journals where they first appeared.
I started writing poetry when I was eight years old, struck with melancholy and confusion over why the girls in my friend group behaved in cruel, underhanded ways towards each other and towards me. Poetry was my means of not only naming the pain and claiming my space in resistance to it, but establishing and occupying a beautifully-furnished verbal attic where I could think without interference.
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Original Art
Along with writing poetry, creating art has been foundational to my identity. A professional artist in the NW Florida neighborhood where I grew up taught oil painting classes, and when I was eight years old, I was enrolled in a tiny class of students much older than me. I can still smell the linseed oil. I was also able to work with watercolor paint, clay, and photography at an adjunct school for gifted kids during that time.
Throughout the years, portrait artistry has always been my forte, with my preferred media being acrylic paints and graphite pencils.
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My Photography
It’s an addiction.