A fiction lover who's spent more than one night reading until dawn, Stephanie believes that the compulsion to keep turning pages is as important in a literary coming-of-age story as it is in a serial killer novel. She will take on any kind of fiction that refuses to let her put it down. In the nonfiction arena, she is drawn to books that make our lives better, easier or more interesting-either through laughter, advice or the sharing of a true story.
Stephanie joined Levine Greenberg after four years as an Editor for Bantam Dell and two years as the Book Producer at iVillage.com. As an Editor, she worked on a wide range of fiction and nonfiction, from RITA award-winning romance to literary fiction to true crime to wedding planning. One of her favorite parts of the job was building relationships with authors-another was the free books that fed her out-of-control reading habit. At iVillage, Stephanie spent two years listening to what readers-the over 14 million women who visit the site every month-wanted and why, developing features on book clubs, family & relationships issues, work, home and diet & fitness.
Raised in Andover, Massachusetts, Stephanie is the daughter of a Latin and Greek teacher whose specialty is etymology (ask her dad for a definition and you'll get a minimum of 36 hours of explanation). This early focus on language led to her obsession with crossword puzzles, a term in Germany as an exchange student and an English/Creative Writing major at Princeton. There she became familiar with the slings and arrows of critique groups and revisions, writing under teachers such as Susan Shreve, Stephen Wright and Joyce Carol Oates. Stephanie now lives with her husband and two children in the New York City area, which makes her green belt in Karate a plus-and the fact that she's an incurable Red Sox fan a decided minus.
