Amy Stuber
@amystuber.com
Writer, editor, worker bee: amystuber.com
SAD GROWNUPS (Stillhouse Press, Oct 2024), Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection
Contributing Editor: splitlipthemag.com
SAD GROWNUPS (Stillhouse Press, Oct 2024), Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection
Contributing Editor: splitlipthemag.com
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Amy Stuber
@amystuber.com
· May 9
Shocked & grateful (thank you Stillhouse Press for giving my book a chance ❤️)
There's a lot of talk about consent. But when men see a woman as a body only, for the taking, it means consent wouldn't have occurred to them. This is more than knowing to ask if something is okay; it's a long-time systemic and cultural view of women as objects that needs to be unwound everywhere.
October 1, 2026 at 12:05 PM
There's a lot of talk about consent. But when men see a woman as a body only, for the taking, it means consent wouldn't have occurred to them. This is more than knowing to ask if something is okay; it's a long-time systemic and cultural view of women as objects that needs to be unwound everywhere.
I’m a little over a week from “empty nest.” Bear with me. It’s going to be a weird fall. If you’re going through this time of life, too, sending love.
August 16, 2026 at 10:15 PM
I’m a little over a week from “empty nest.” Bear with me. It’s going to be a weird fall. If you’re going through this time of life, too, sending love.
A year ago, this happened. Still so thankful. Trying to remind myself that writing is a long road, and I always come back to it, even if not every year is the most productive and fruitful.
Shocked & grateful (thank you Stillhouse Press for giving my book a chance ❤️)
Congratulations, @amystuber.com!
May 9, 2026 at 12:56 PM
A year ago, this happened. Still so thankful. Trying to remind myself that writing is a long road, and I always come back to it, even if not every year is the most productive and fruitful.
Reposted by Amy Stuber
@amystuber.com firing on all cylinders in this incredible essay. Heartbreak and beauty in parenting, in life.
Emergency
(content warning: suicide)
substack.com
April 29, 2026 at 5:44 PM
@amystuber.com firing on all cylinders in this incredible essay. Heartbreak and beauty in parenting, in life.
I haven't been writing at all. Things have felt heavy. Blah blah blah. But I did write this little essay about my younger child's spontaneous partial lung collapse, if medical emergencies are your thing: amystuber1.substack.com/p/emergency
Emergency
Three weeks after he spent a night in the ER, my son told me he had been listening to Smog’s “Feather by Feather,” headphones on, midnight at the hospital, while a team of what sounded like twenty hos...
amystuber1.substack.com
April 29, 2026 at 3:39 PM
I haven't been writing at all. Things have felt heavy. Blah blah blah. But I did write this little essay about my younger child's spontaneous partial lung collapse, if medical emergencies are your thing: amystuber1.substack.com/p/emergency
I have a Canadian colleague who gets a full year off for maternity leave. I had six weeks both times, and why do we opt to pay for wars and billionaire tax breaks when we could use government to take care of ourselves and each other.
April 28, 2026 at 1:21 PM
I have a Canadian colleague who gets a full year off for maternity leave. I had six weeks both times, and why do we opt to pay for wars and billionaire tax breaks when we could use government to take care of ourselves and each other.
there's never been a stronger argument for why we need the humanities than this year, these people
April 23, 2026 at 1:49 AM
there's never been a stronger argument for why we need the humanities than this year, these people
This was a genuine thrill and shock (I guess I'm a mystery writer - who knew!?). @aaronburch.bsky.social is such a champion of writers, and I'm so appreciative of his kindness and support. This was a story I thought was doomed to sit on my computer, but he helped shape it up and gave it a home!
Couldn't be more excited to get to share that @amystuber.com's Short Story, Long story, "Swans," was selected for The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2026!
This was not only one of my fave stories I published last year, but one of my fave stories of the year, period. Congrats, Amy!!
This was not only one of my fave stories I published last year, but one of my fave stories of the year, period. Congrats, Amy!!
"Swans" by Amy Stuber
"This is a story about Peter’s first year of college. No, it’s about boys and birds and men. Or it’s about love and safety and the ways we hurt each other."
ashortstorylong.substack.com
April 20, 2026 at 2:14 PM
This was a genuine thrill and shock (I guess I'm a mystery writer - who knew!?). @aaronburch.bsky.social is such a champion of writers, and I'm so appreciative of his kindness and support. This was a story I thought was doomed to sit on my computer, but he helped shape it up and gave it a home!
Finally finally getting back to novel draft. Halfway there. For the first time in a long time: feels doable
April 11, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Finally finally getting back to novel draft. Halfway there. For the first time in a long time: feels doable
Small Saturday reminder that your human body and face are good, your space is good, and you don’t need to devote your weekend energy to trying to change these things unless you really want to; “improvement” is often a capitalist ruse to keep us disconnected, uncreative, and distracted
April 11, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Small Saturday reminder that your human body and face are good, your space is good, and you don’t need to devote your weekend energy to trying to change these things unless you really want to; “improvement” is often a capitalist ruse to keep us disconnected, uncreative, and distracted
What will it take to get this man out of office
April 7, 2026 at 10:03 PM
What will it take to get this man out of office
Committing to coming out of my day job/world is burning coma to move into a more creative phase and actually write again. Who is with me?
March 28, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Committing to coming out of my day job/world is burning coma to move into a more creative phase and actually write again. Who is with me?
there's a point in novel writing when you start thinking "maybe this old thing from this other old project goes in this new thing," and I'm here to say: no, don't, it doesn't.
March 10, 2026 at 2:30 AM
there's a point in novel writing when you start thinking "maybe this old thing from this other old project goes in this new thing," and I'm here to say: no, don't, it doesn't.
I know there's a war going on, and this point is absolutely nonessential, but side note: can we stop with the dangerously thin, heavily surgically altered women? if that's your thing, okay. but acting like that's aspirational? don't we have more to aim for as we age?
March 3, 2026 at 1:27 PM
I know there's a war going on, and this point is absolutely nonessential, but side note: can we stop with the dangerously thin, heavily surgically altered women? if that's your thing, okay. but acting like that's aspirational? don't we have more to aim for as we age?
ICE is now in the small Kansas college town where I live, rolling up in unmarked cars, conducting armed, masked kidnappings of people on sidewalks & in the parking lots of chain stores and fast food restaurants
February 17, 2026 at 7:06 PM
ICE is now in the small Kansas college town where I live, rolling up in unmarked cars, conducting armed, masked kidnappings of people on sidewalks & in the parking lots of chain stores and fast food restaurants
My daughter has a new story at The Los Angeles Review:
losangelesreview.org/sanctity-by-...
losangelesreview.org/sanctity-by-...
Sanctity by Edie Patterson - The Los Angeles Review
This is the summer she lives in Brooklyn and smokes cigarettes in the backyard where someone who lives two stories below her has built a swing set for their kid and honeysuckle spreads its rangy finge...
losangelesreview.org
February 11, 2026 at 3:43 AM
My daughter has a new story at The Los Angeles Review:
losangelesreview.org/sanctity-by-...
losangelesreview.org/sanctity-by-...
After decades of the Republican party's incessant shaming and morality policing, all their faux "family values," they are silent as Trump again shares racist content and appears over 30k times in the Epstein files. Tells you everything you need to know.
February 7, 2026 at 2:49 PM
After decades of the Republican party's incessant shaming and morality policing, all their faux "family values," they are silent as Trump again shares racist content and appears over 30k times in the Epstein files. Tells you everything you need to know.
Every documents release a reminder that many men still view women and girls as objects, there for them to use
Also: we already know this man is a rapist who bragged about assaulting women. What new evidence will it take to change the minds of those still loyal? What more do they need to see?
Also: we already know this man is a rapist who bragged about assaulting women. What new evidence will it take to change the minds of those still loyal? What more do they need to see?
February 1, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Every documents release a reminder that many men still view women and girls as objects, there for them to use
Also: we already know this man is a rapist who bragged about assaulting women. What new evidence will it take to change the minds of those still loyal? What more do they need to see?
Also: we already know this man is a rapist who bragged about assaulting women. What new evidence will it take to change the minds of those still loyal? What more do they need to see?
Heartbreakingly sad how many people will say it’s ok for humans to be violently dragged away from their kids and homes, brutalized, even killed, all in the name of nationalism. America, I should never be surprised
January 25, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Heartbreakingly sad how many people will say it’s ok for humans to be violently dragged away from their kids and homes, brutalized, even killed, all in the name of nationalism. America, I should never be surprised
if this is what you wanted, if you see these videos and say "this is what I voted for," you're unquestionably a terrible person
January 24, 2026 at 6:24 PM
if this is what you wanted, if you see these videos and say "this is what I voted for," you're unquestionably a terrible person
it feels insensitive to post about anything personal during these catastrophically bad times, so forgive me - but sharing my older child's latest fiction at the lovely @psmokejournal.bsky.social
www.peatsmokejournal.com/winter-2026-...
www.peatsmokejournal.com/winter-2026-...
Nothing Ever Happens — Peatsmoke
Edith Patterson Stevie is in love with this town. She is in love with its heavy sense of memory and its slow polluted river full of cottonwood cotton. She is a little bit in love with Bria too.
www.peatsmokejournal.com
January 19, 2026 at 7:00 PM
it feels insensitive to post about anything personal during these catastrophically bad times, so forgive me - but sharing my older child's latest fiction at the lovely @psmokejournal.bsky.social
www.peatsmokejournal.com/winter-2026-...
www.peatsmokejournal.com/winter-2026-...
Random but putting it out there that if you need someone for a conference, panel, reading, podcast, etc., I’d be interested! I’ve been consumed by my day job and would love the chance to talk to people about writing 💕
January 16, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Random but putting it out there that if you need someone for a conference, panel, reading, podcast, etc., I’d be interested! I’ve been consumed by my day job and would love the chance to talk to people about writing 💕
Another war for oil when peaceful and renewable alternatives exist. The path we are on is so bleak.
January 4, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Another war for oil when peaceful and renewable alternatives exist. The path we are on is so bleak.
If he can, in a twelve-hour period, militarily unseat another country's leader, claim control of that country, threaten to similarly take over multiple other countries, all without any Congressional involvement, Congress is dead, its power completely gone.
January 3, 2026 at 7:33 PM
If he can, in a twelve-hour period, militarily unseat another country's leader, claim control of that country, threaten to similarly take over multiple other countries, all without any Congressional involvement, Congress is dead, its power completely gone.
I’m not big on end-of-year recaps, but endless thanks to @penamerica.bsky.social for making this year unforgettable. (If you’re interested, you can order SAD GROWNUPS for the price of an elaborate coffee www.stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-s...)
December 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I’m not big on end-of-year recaps, but endless thanks to @penamerica.bsky.social for making this year unforgettable. (If you’re interested, you can order SAD GROWNUPS for the price of an elaborate coffee www.stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-s...)