Stephanie Davies is a writer, speaker coach, and event organizer with a passion for social justice. She has worked for Doctors Without Borders, North Star Fund, the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, the Plum Village Community of Thich Nhat Hanh, and UNAIDS, among others. 

Surviving A Patriarchy on Steroids is her second book. She is also the author of the coming-of-age memoir Other Girls Like Me, which Stephen Fry described as a “gloriously thrilling and uplifting ride through a critical moment in queer culture, the women’s movement, and the story of political protest.” In 2024, Stephanie received the Lambda Literary Jeanne Cordova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction.

A UK native, Stephanie moved to New York in the early nineties, where she taught English Composition at Long Island University in Brooklyn and led research trips to Cuba. Before moving to New York, she co-edited a grassroots LGBTQ magazine in Brighton called A Queer Tribe. Stephanie earned a French and ESL teaching degree from Aberystwyth University in Wales, and a BA in European Studies from Bath University, England. She grew up in a small village in Hampshire and at the age of 22, joined a women's peace camp outside a US military base at Greenham Common in Newbury, a life-changing experience that is at the heart of her first book, Other Girls Like Me. 

Today, Stephanie divides her time between Brooklyn and the Hudson Valley, New York where she lives with her wife, Bea, and rescue pitbull mix, Pongo. (Photo is of her former beloved dog, Emma Peel.)