PRONUNCIATION GUIDE:
Zoje = ZOH-yuh (rhymes with "glad to KNOW ya")
Stage = It's not a trick, it's just like the stage you perform on.
(she/her)
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| Official Author Photo by Gabrianna Dacko |
SHORT BIO:
Zoje
Stage is the USA Today and internationally bestselling author of BABY
TEETH, WONDERLAND, GETAWAY, and MOTHERED. A former filmmaker with a penchant for the dark
and suspenseful, she lives in Pittsburgh.
LONGER BIO:
Zoje Stage's debut novel, BABY TEETH, was a USA Today and international bestseller. It was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award and named one of the best books of the year by Forbes Magazine, Library Journal, PopSugar, Barnes & Noble, Bloody Disgusting, and BookBub. Her follow-up novel, WONDERLAND, was described in a starred review from Booklist as a "beautifully choreographed and astonishing second novel." With her third book, GETAWAY, the New York Times declared her "a writer with a gift for the lyrical and the frightening." Her widely-praised latest novel, MOTHERED, was an Amazon First Reads pick and spent numerous weeks as the No. 1 Horror Suspense title on Amazon. She lives in Pittsburgh with her cats.
Before turning to novels, Zoje Stage had a deep and eclectic background in film and theatre. Highlights include being a 2012 Emerging Storytellers Fellow from the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP.org), and a 2008 Fellow in Screenwriting from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA.org). In 2009 she won the Screenplay Live! Screenwriting Competition, which afforded her the opportunity to direct a staged reading of her winning script, THE MACHINE WHO LOVED, for the High Falls Film Festival (Rochester, NY). Zoje has written-directed-produced numerous zero-budget films, including the documentary short BEST OF LUCK ("an amusing take on the travails of aspiring writers" - The New York Times). Her films have screened at venues such as Anthology Film Archives and Two Boots Pioneer Theater (both in NYC), Film Kitchen (Pittsburgh, PA), and Emerging Filmmakers (Rochester, NY). As a playwright, Zoje is most proud of her play MONSTER, which was produced in Pittsburgh by the Upstairs Theatre ("Ms. Stage now makes her own contribution to holocaust literature with a demanding and intensely felt play... a must-see for those wanting another view of why and how the holocaust happened." - The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). After living in Rochester, NY for many years, she is back in her hometown of Pittsburgh, PA.
