Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer

Published: Nov. 13, 2021, 8:14 p.m.

Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer is a poet and installation artist in St. Louis. She is the author of the poetry collections\xa0Well Waiting Room\xa0(Fordham University Press, fall 2021) and\xa0Cleavemark\xa0(BOAAT Press, 2016) and the children's book\xa0The Cloud Lasso\xa0(Penny Candy Books, 2019). Her poems and art have appeared in\xa0Bomb, Bennington Review, Georgia Review, Harvard Review, Iowa Review, AGNI, Washington Square, At Length, The Offing, Denver Quarterly, LIT, Colorado Review, and on PoetryNow and the Poetry Foundation website, among others. She frequently collaborates with other artists, most recently with Cheryl Wassenaar on the installation\xa0The Cabinet of Ordinary Affairs\xa0at the Des Lee Gallery. Her work can be viewed at\xa0stephanieschlaifer.com.\n\n\n\n\u201cThe Archive of the Interior,\u201d from The Cabinet of Ordinary Affairs. A collaborative, multimedia installation with Cheryl Wassenaar.\n\nInstallation view, The Cabinet of Ordinary Affairs. A collaborative, multimedia installation with Cheryl Wassenaar.\n\n\n\n\nInstallation view, The Cabinet of Ordinary Affairs. A collaborative, multimedia installation with Cheryl Wassenaar.