New Jerseyan by birth but Coloradoan by nature, I encounter the world through writing in its various forms, old and new. 

My debut short story collection Wifeshopping won the Bakeless Prize in Fiction from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2008. My prose poem collection Thirty-One Octets: Incantations and Meditations was published by WordTech Communications/CW Books in 2014, the same year in which daddylabyrinth premiered at the ArtScience Museum of Singapore. My interactive novel Talk with Your Hands Like an Ellis Island Mutt premiered in Hong Kong in 2016. My interactive novel Boulderpeople is forthcoming from Choice of Games in 2018. 

I reside physically in Brookings, SD (where I am an associate professor at South Dakota State University) with my wife Jennifer and sons Lucas and Landon, and virtually at www.stevenwingate.com.