Stephen Beachy

Who is Stephen Beachy?

Stephen Beachy is a writer. He was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1965, and attended the University of Iowa from 1983 to 1990, both as an undergrad and in the Iowa Writers' Workshop. During this period he also traveled extensively in the US and Latin America, sometimes by motorcycle and sometimes hitchhiking, experiences which influenced his first novel, The Whistling Song. The Whistling Song was published by W. W. Norton with cover illustrations by Curt Kirkwood in 1991 and his second novel, Distortion, by Harrington Park Press, in 2000. It was reprinted in December 2010 by Rebel Satori Press. Two novellas, Some Phantom and No Time Flat were published in 2006 by Suspect Thoughts Press and have been described as a cross between The Turn of the Screw and Herk Harvey's Carnival of Souls. Robert Gluck said, "Stephen Beachy is a visionary. In these twin novellas, he explores madness and crime with the nocturnal lyricism of empty time and space." The novellas were republished in 2013 by Verse Chorus Press. His novel boneyard, was published by Verse Chorus Press in 2011.