Carina Stopenski

Carina Stopenski (they/them) is a writer, teacher, and librarian based out of Pittsburgh, PA. Carina received their BFA in Creative Writing from Chatham University, their MSLS in Library Science from Clarion University of Pennsylvania, and their MA in Literary and Cultural Studies from Carnegie Mellon University. Carina has presented on the topics of mutilation, abject terrors, and subversive diegesis at various conferences, and their article “Exploring Mutilation: Women, Affect, and the Body Horror Genre,” published in [sic] – a Journal of Literature, Culture and Literary Translation, solidified their scholarly focus of horror media studies. Their creative work has been featured in or is forthcoming from Papeachu Review, God’s Cruel Joke, iō Literary Journal, and Fauxmoir, among others. You can follow their work at www.carinastopenskiwriter.com .