STEPHANIE KLEIN

A foodie who sometimes abuses hair care products, Stephanie Klein is an author and one of the Internet’s most popular blogging mistresses (www.stephanieklein.com). With more than 400,000 readers a month, she has been dubbed the “internet queen of Manhattan” by the Independent in London, and has been featured on the cover of the New York Times Sunday Styles section, where she was named among “the top one percent of all bloggers.” Klein has been published in the UK, Europe, India, Australia, Japan, and China to name a few, and NBC is currently working with Klein to develop a half-hour comedy series based on her first memoir.

Klein is known as the voice for people who want to confront topics they wish they could talk about or articulate. In her first memoir,Straight Up & Dirtyshe traces her return to single life as a “firm, fashionable, and let’s face it – fetching” 20-something, in the wake of a horrific divorce. Her latest book, Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp, a prequel to Straight Up, is more than a story about weight loss. Moose reminds everyone what it was like to feel like an outsider. Klein opens up and shares her deepest thoughts and feelings from a turbulent, hopeful time, baring her soul and making her adolescent heartache palpable.

Klein was born and raised in New York. She graduated magna cum laude from Barnard College in 1997 with a B.A. in English and a concentration in writing. By day, she specialized in web design as an advertising executive, and by night, she photographed the grit, glam, and grandeur of New York City for Fashion Wire Daily, Sipa Press, and Fox Sports. Her photography collection, “Au Jus,” is featured in the suites, rooms, and corridors of The Hotel Gansevoort in the Meatpacking District of New York City.

She now lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband and twin son and daughter.