2023
Middle Tennessee State University’s Baldwin Gallery hosts Tema Stauffer in conversation with Lauren Rhoades for the opening of Southern Fiction
Memoir manuscript, Split the Baby, a finalist for the Iron Horse Literary Review Book Prize
2022
Artist Residency at JX Farms, Cleveland, Mississippi
Southern Fiction: Photographs by Tema Stauffer published by Daylight Books with foreword by Casey Cep and essays by Lauren Rhoades and Honorée Fannone Jeffers
“Split the Baby” (essay) chosen by Jami Attenburg as runner-up in phoebe’s 2022 spring nonfiction contest
2019
Tent Creative Writing Fellowship at the Yiddish Book Center
Lauren Rhoades 