Publications
CNF published in BlazeVOX Journal
CNF published in Arcturus, July 2023
Short Fiction, CNF, and Poetry
SHORT STORIES:
"Excerpt from Muse" (Halcyone: 2019)
"Saving Bone" (iMap Books: 2013)
"Somebody's Daughter" (Truth or Dare, edited by Liz Miles, Running Press: May 2011)
"Troll Bumps" (Love and Sex, edited by Michael Cart, Simon & Schuster: Spring 2001)
"The Book" (Lost and Found, edited by M. Jerry and Helen S. Weiss, Tor Books: 2000)
SHORT NONFICTION:
"It's All Whoring" (The Packingtown Review: May 2025)
"Becoming (Help Wanted)" (PRISM international 62.2: Spring 2024)
"A Girl's Guide to Camping" (Arcturus: July 2023)
"Girls! Girls! Girls!" (BlazeVOX Journal: Spring 2022)
"Raini is Luca" (ImageOurWrite: 2018)
"Losing at the Slot Machine" (Voya, Volume 31, Number 1: April 2008)
"Letter from Shelley Stoehr" (Dear Author: Letters of Hope, edited by Joan Kaywell, Philomel: 2007)
Controversial Issues in the Lives of Contemporary Young Adults (The ALAN Review, Volume 24, Number 2: Winter 1997)
POETRY:
"Go-Go Girl" (Lips Poetry Magazine: Spring 2025)
"dawning," "lap dance" (Muse-Pie Press: October 2024)
"muscle memory" (Tofu Ink Arts Press: Fall 2024)
"According to the Tibetan Book of the Dead …" (Half and One: August 2024)
"the ghosts you chase you never catch" (Beyond Words: June 2024)
"Oh, Self," "Fill my mouth …," "Mardi Gras Lament" (BlazeVOX Journal: Fall 2023)
"My Love is Like a Poem," "Virgin Mother Whore" (The Best Sixty-Four Poets of 2019: Fall 2020)
"#" (34thParallel: February 2020)
"Love Me LoveMeLoveMeLove" (The North American Review: Spring 2019)
"Text-ure": "Subtext," "Context," "Pretext" (Dead Alive Magazine: June 2018)
"Dating Decisions," "Empathy" (The Gordian Review: March 2018)
"Mental Masturbation" (Fresh Ink: Spring, 2017)
WRITING AWARDS
Finalist 57th New Millenium Award for Nonfiction
Finalist 56th New Millenium Awards for Nonfiction
2023 de Groot Foundation Writer of Note grant
Honorable Mention, 2022 WOW! Women on Writing flash creative nonfiction contest
Honorable Mention, 2021 Writer's Digest Annual Writing Competition/Rhyming Poetry
Honorable Mention, 2019 New Millenial/Sunshots Short fiction award
Honorable Mention 2019 James Hearst Poetry Prize, The North American Review
Honorable mention, 2017 Writer's Digest Annual Writing Competition/Non-Rhyming Poetry
Runner-up, 2017 WOW! Women on Writing flash fiction contest
Saving Bone
Izzy and bff Seven set out to rescue a dog, Bone, from its abusive owner. Although they fail repeatedly, they cannot stop trying. Then Izzy learns a truth about Seven and realizes it isn’t only Bone who needs saving – it's Seven.
Weresisters
Sixteen-year-old Kyra has no recollection of her life before age ten. One leg is so badly damaged that she has to walk with a brace. And all she wants in her junior year of high school is to be cool. Instead, she becomes a werewolf. Torn among allegiances to her father, her newly discovered family, and the werewolf pack, Kyra must learn to control the beast within and find a way to stop the madman who threatens to destroy them all.
Selene is a beautiful, tough leader of the meanest gang in school—and a werewolf through and through. She is on the top of the world and plans to stay there. Then Selene kills a human and unleashes a murderous rage that threatens to turn her into a mindless, violent beast. Terrified of what she might become, Selene runs away. She must find a way to regain her humanity, and she must do it quickly, because someone is following her…
Crosses
Publisher's Weekly
Stoehr draws a hard-hitting, graphically realistic portrait of troubled adolescents who indulge in alcohol, drugs, sex, shoplifting and ``cutting'' themselves, deliberately, an activity that somehow assuages inner turmoil.... Yet this morbidly compelling chronicle of promising lives gone astray commands attention throughout. Ages 14-up. (Nov.)
School Library Journal
Gr 9-12-- Self-abuser Nancy deals with alcoholic, abusive parents by hurting herself and drinking. At school she meets Katie and they become best friends; both are freshmen, both are punkers, and both are scarred from cutting. Cutting--with fingernails, glass, or any sharp instrument--is their escape from the sordid reality and lack of control of their lives. When you hurt physically, you can't feel emotional pain. Strong street language, sex, and violence mark this portrayal of a troubled young teen. Written as a first-person narrative, the compelling story draws readers into Nancy's mind: they will feel the intensity of her pain, both physical and emotional. Characterizations of parents, caring but misguided school personnel, punk rockers, and other teens are strong, realistic, and consistent. Stereotypes have been avoided, and the language, conversations, and relationships are contemporary and genuine. Consequences for actions are logical; didacticism is avoided, yet the unstated message of the horrors of drugs and alcohol is there. Reminiscent of Go Ask Alice (S. & S., 1971), the powerful portrayal of Nancy and Katie will be read again and again by today's teens. --Gail Richmond, Point Loma High School, San Diego
Weird on the Outside
Voice of Youth Advocates
An emotionally powerful novel that describes with great intensity a trap of adolescent behavior and beliefs.
Tomorrow Wendy
Jessica (Vixen_0297@yahoo.com), a 17 year old student from MA., July 28, 2000,
True Realism and Grit in an Outstanding book
This book was outstanding. I could really connect with the main character. There were many striking similarities between my mind and hers. We ask each other the same questions and this book helped to answer them. This was the first book I read that truly reflected teenagers with the right attitude and reality. It was not a person trying too hard to sound like a teenager and trying to hard to have the attitude of a teenager but it was like reading something I myself had written. Truly one of the best books I've read.