She earned a PhD in English with a certificate in Women’s Studies from the University of Pennsylvania where she worked part-time in the writing center and tutored hundreds of students, with widely ranging writing abilities, and especially ESL learners. She is a writer as well and published a best-selling academic book, Chick Lit and Postfeminism (University of Virginia Press, 2011). Prior to becoming an academic she had a career in the Manhattan publishing sector where she worked for houses such as John Wiley & Sons, Simon and Schuster, Cambridge University Press, and McGraw-Hill (School Division). In March 2016, she received a Teaching Excellence award from UNH’s College of Liberal Arts. She takes on a selective basis freelance editing and writing projects for the educational and business sector and is available for consults for the Common Application essay as well as college admissions supplemental essays.

Stephanie has a long-standing commitment to young people, education, and philanthropy. During her graduate and postdoctoral work at Penn, as a member of the Young Friends committee for the Settlement Music School as well the Children Crisis Treatment Center, she helped organize fundraisers for these youth-oriented nonprofits. She has also by invitation, as well as a volunteer, served as the Judges’ Chairperson for scholarship or grant competitions for the Kosciuszko Foundation, the American Association of University Women, and the Portsmouth Women’s City Club.

Prior to co-founding Seacoast Test Prep with Paul, she taught nine SAT courses in Dover and Exeter for The Knowledge Roundtable.