ABOUT

Stephanie Danler is a novelist, memoirist, and screenwriter. 

She is the author of Smog, forthcoming in March 2027, the international bestseller Sweetbitter, and the memoir Stray.

She is the creator and executive producer of the Sweetbitter Television Series on Starz. 

Her work has appeared in The Sewanee Review, The New York Times Book Review, Vogue, Airmail, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, The Paris Review Daily, Time, Travel & Leisure, CondeNast Traveler, and New York Magazine.

Her nonfiction has received Honorable Mentions in Best American Essays 2018 and 2019, and her criticism won the 2019 Robert B. Heilman award from the Sewanee Review.

She is based in Los Angeles but is often in New York. She writes the Substack Write What and can usually be found there, or on social media @smdanler.