Stephanie Murphy-Lupo

Stephanie Murphy-Lupo is an author, freelance journalist and native Floridian. She has written about numerous American destinations as well as Cuba, Portugal, Australia, Finland, Sweden, Canada and Italy.

She has interviewed tycoons and celebrities, scholars and scientists, musicians and artists, entertainers and athletes, analysts and policy-makers.

Stephanie is the author of "All Aboard! A History of Florida's Railroads" (Globe Pequot Press, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, January 2016).

In May 2016, she self-published a biography, "Mud 2 Money, Eyes on Moscow: The Adventures of Gordon Devon Gaster." The print edition is for sale on Amazon.com; the eBook is available via Kindle channels.

Stephanie also is the author of "Day Trips from New Jersey" (GPP Travel, 2012). From 1995-1998, she co-authored "The Insiders' Guide to Boca Raton & the Palm Beaches" (Falcon Publishing).

She was a writer and columnist for the Palm Beach Daily News from 2000-2008. Her articles and photographs have appeared in Palm Beach Illustrated, The Palm Beach Post, The Miami Herald, Sun-Sentinel, Florida Weekly, Culture, Quality Cities, Boca Raton News, and Palm Beach County TravelHost.

Stephanie is a graduate of the University of Florida College of Journalism. She studied at the University of Colorado on a Gannett Foundation grant, and completed newspaper management training at the Knight-Ridder Institute in Miami.

A native of Jacksonville, Stephanie also lived in Fort Myers, Coral Gables, Pensacola Beach and Gainesville. After college, she lived and worked in Orlando, Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton.

She is the author of "Off the Record with Charles Calello," a biography in progress. Since 2014, she has been writing a novel and screenplay.

Stephanie and her husband, Gerard A. Lupo, live in West Palm Beach, Florida.