About Stella

Stella Vale has lived her whole life within forty miles of the town in Iowa where she was born. She married at twenty. She never went to college and never needed to; she learned everything that matters by wanting it. The stories get written at the kitchen table, early, in the hour that belongs to nobody — coffee going cold, dog under the chair, the house still dark. She writes about being seen. About men who notice. About second chances arriving late, but not too late. If you've read this far, she'd probably tell you to go make yourself something warm to drink. The book will wait. It knows how.