Stephanie L. Fowler

Stephanie L. Fowler was born in Salisbury, Maryland. She attended Parkside High School where she won the Old Home Prize in 1997 for her senior thesis on the history of downtown Salisbury.

Following her passion for writing, she attended Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. Washington College is well known for its writing program and, in May 2001, she was awarded the Sophie Kerr Prize - the largest undergraduate literary award in the country. Stephanie won the prize for a collection of creative non-fiction short stories written about the Delmarva Peninsula. That collection, Crossings, eventually became her first book, published in May 2008. Her second book, Chasing Alice, is set to be released in September 2020.

Since the publication of her first book, she has continued to write articles, short stories, essays, and memoir pieces for outlets like She Write: Visions and Voices of Seaside Scribes, Coastal Style, Medium, and One True Thing. Stephanie was a 2016 Light of Literacy award winner and serves as the president of the Lower Eastern Shore chapter of the Maryland Writers Association. In addition to being a judge for several regional writing contests, she co-hosts a writing podcast called "So, What’s Your Story?" with fellow author, Tony Russo.

She currently lives in southern coastal Delaware with her wife and dog.