Stephanie Land is the author the bestselling debut memoir Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive, which recounts her harrowing saga as a single mom navigating the poverty trap. Her unflinching testimony exposes the physical, economic, and social brutality that domestic workers face, all while radiating a parent’s hope and dedication. Her second memoir Class, picks up where Maid left off as she faces the new challenges of being a poor college student and single parent. 

Stephanie writes about economic and social justice, domestic abuse, chronic illness, and motherhood, and has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Atlantic, and The New York Review of Books, among many other outlets. A writing fellow at the Center for Community Change, she has worked with Barbara Ehrenreich at the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

Stephanie currently lives in Missoula, Montana with her two daughters, Story & Coraline, her husband, Tim, and their dogs Bodhi, Juneau, and Keats.