“The mind is both the lifeline on which we depend and the instrument that breaks us down.”
Maleah Stephens
Nonfiction
"Hitchhike"
“I felt something cold run down the center of my spine, and the top of my skin vibrated. I was lost. He was intoxicated. I had no service. He was not telling me where his house was. I was in the middle of nowhere. It was dark, and it was just him and me. My thoughts went to two places: I am either about to die, or he is about to do something else.”
Featured Work
Poetry
"Resistance"
“How can I forgive everything else for what is
Far beyond their control, but myself?”
About Me
Biography
Maleah Stephens is an Atlanta-based writer specializing in existentialist, mythological, and psychological fiction, as well as poetry. She presently works as a freelance editor for fiction and nonfiction works, journalistic articles, and screenplays. Her work has been featured in Savannah Magazine, and she currently serves as the editor for Honeycomb, an online literary journal. In 2025, she worked as a screenwriter for the 48 Hour Film Project, where her script received a nomination for “Best Writing.”
Writer’s Statement
I am fascinated by the inner mechanics of the human psyche and how individual perception shapes the reality before us. In my own work, I seek to thoroughly explore the psychological make-up of the isolated consciousness, both the open facade and the dark corners, to develop compelling, intricate, and complex characters that strikingly resonate with perceptive readers. The mind is both the crucial lifeline on which we depend and the detrimental instrument that breaks us down—I aim to explore both sides of this contradictory coin to demonstrate the relativity of “truth” and offer the comforting notion that life is exactly what we make of it.
