Steve also goes by Stephen, Stephen A., and on occasion, Vaquero Supreme of the Plains (whatever that means).
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Steve is a third-year honors student at Carnegie Mellon University. He will be spending Summer 2026 in Los Angeles, as a Development Intern at Kang & Co. Entertainment.
As a college freshman, Steve interned at the CMU Intl. Film Festival during its final year of operation, working primarily with graduates and industry professionals. Since then, he has joined up with the CMU Filmmakers Club, leading to involvement in copious student shoots.
Within the creative writing space, Steve interned as a reader for the CMU Press and currently heads the Oakland Review literary magazine. He has received both praise and hate-mail for his articles in the university paper.
In addition to being a teaching assistant, Steve is the recipient of two merit-based research grants from CMU, and has made the Dean’s List every semester available. He studied full-time at the University of Oxford during Hilary and Trinity 2026, and is a standing member of the students’ political union there.
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IN PRINT
Bum Leg forthcoming in print February 2027, from Vignette Editions
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“I want to see everything.”
Explored through both real-world encounters and bold works of fiction, Stephen Makin’s extraordinary debut collection for Vignette Editions combines memoir and short stories, seamlessly interwoven to present a unique, poignant vision of the United States as he recalls and observes it.
Seen through the eyes of an eleven-year-old boy on a train journey across the country with his father, and of a young man at college looking back on it all through wistful, more knowing eyes, this powerful, punchy, evocative and timely collection of characters, moments and tales are reminiscent of the very best of the daring, young American writers known and loved around the world – and marks the literary debut of what looks set to be one of the greats of the next generation.