Stacey Ballis

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Stacey Ballis was born on May 25, 1970 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Her love of language was apparent early on; from the age of nine months it was nearly impossible to shut her up. Reading was also an early passion, happening pretty much spontaneously before her third birthday, making her both a minor prodigy and a little freakish. As a child, she was a natural storyteller. Her parents referred to this skill as "lying," but really she was just preparing herself for a future in fiction writing. Her first major poetic work, "Suppose I Were a Snowflake," written at age seven, was a critical success, and was published in the Chicago Public Schools' creative writing anthology Freckled Fantasies. A deeply conceptualized piece about identity and precipitation empathy, it marked the beginning of her life as a real writer. After the usual trials and tribulations of grammar and high school, she matriculated at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, where she majored in English Literature and American Studies, and took a minor in Creative Writing. Mostly she hung out in the Student Events office. In the summer of 1990, she went to Kenya for three months where she lived in a remote village without electricity or running water, taught at the local secondary school, and did small community-service projects. Shortly after her return, she began a relationship with her future husband and future ex-husband. She graduated from Brandeis, and immediately they moved home to Chicago. After fo

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