Stephen Graham attended Harvard College (B.A. 1974) and produced plays in New York during the 1970s and 1980s. He possesses graduate degrees in Fiction Writing (B.F.A 1992) and English Literature (Ph.D. 2004) from Columbia University.
Stephen has taught literature at Columbia College, the New School, and (since 2006) Bard College. He frequently teaches literature courses at Eastern New York State Men’s Correctional Facility, Napanoch, NY, as part of the Bard Prison Initiative. Stephen worries a lot about mass incarceration and the social inequalities that enable and perpetuate it.