About Stephanie

Stephanie Feuer is an award-winning writer, marketing executive, and co-founder of the World Taste & Smell Association. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, NBC News THINK, The New York Daily News, Slate, Good Housekeeping, Narratively, Next Avenue, The Forward, and numerous other publications and anthologies. Her work has been honored with the Best Shortform Science Writing Award, and she was the winner of the MIT Press Pitchfest.

Stephanie is the author of the young adult novel, Drawing Amanda (Hipso Media, 2014). She is currently writing both a botanical thriller and a narrative nonfiction book about smell, perception, and memory.

She has been featured on the BBC, guested on numerous podcasts, and was a speaker at the Hippocamp writing conference. Stephanie has read her work at the Bluestockings Bookstore, The Bowery Poetry Club, The Brooklyn Museum, The Cornelia Street Café, KGB Bar, Le Poisson Rouge, The Museum of Motherhood, Sarah Lawrence College, and other venues.

Stephanie started her career in New England as a disc jockey and radio news reporter and was editor-in-chief of Preview, the monthly music and arts paper. She worked as a music journalist and as an alternative energy reporter, publishing in The Boston Herald, The Real Paper, Sojourner, Sweet Potato, The Harvard Square Deal, and HydroWire and HydroReview.

She transitioned to marketing and public relations work, holding executive positions at BusinessWeek magazine, Scholastic Inc, WQXR-FM and WQEW-AM, The New York Times and several healthcare organizations. Her work earned numerous awards including The New York State Broadcasters Award, The Angel Award, The Newspaper Association Program Excellence Award, and multiple New York Times Publisher’s Awards.

Stephanie graduated with a B.A in Sociology and Government from Kirkland (Hamilton) College, and earned her M.S. from the Boston University School of Communication. A New York native, she splits her time between New York City and the Hudson Valley. She enjoys working in her greenhouse, photography, playing tennis, lifting weights and creating recipes with her homegrown vegetables.