Selected Stories

β€œHoney Buns and Cream Soda in the Stairwell” Story of the Week in Narrative Magazine (June 2025) (WINNER OF THE 2025 NARRATIVE PRIZE)
β€œWaffles & Ice Cream for Breakfast” in Foglifter Journal (May 2025)
β€œHarlem, Summer 1991” in West Branch (May 2024)

WIP

A.T. Steel is currently working on an ambitious, POV-swapping literary fiction novel set in hostile Harlem ghettos in the early 90s following a sisterhood of young queer and transsexual foundlings. Look out for canonical stand-alone stories from this work listed below

Future

Watch out for:
β€œThe Lights of the Carnival Were Blinding”, β€œLeave The Door Open”, β€œMixed Berry Pie”

β€œWith extraordinary sensitivity in prose born in mean streets and reaching up to the stars, A. T. Steel writes about young, queer, and transsexual foundlings struggling for survival and dignity in New York City’s homeless shelters, projects, and gay cruising piers of the early 1990s. Reading his Narrative Prize–winning story when it came in over the transom was like discovering Faulkner or Baldwin for the first timeβ€”a resonant artistry of encompassing social consciousness and a humanizing embrace.” – Tom Jenks, co-founder & editor of Narrative Magazine, in awarding A.T. Steel the 2025 Narrative Prize

β€œThis is possibly the most authentic, powerful fiction to ever appear in Prism & Pen, and each chapter stands on its own.” – James Finn, Editor of Prism & Pen, Columnist for the L.A. Blade