Stephanie Vance

Washington Post bestseller Stephanie Vance earned her MFA from Western State Colorado University, and writes both non-fiction and fiction. Her fiction work focuses on romantic comedy and humorous speculative fiction. Her romantic comedy novel Across the Aisle was released by Entangled Publishing in 2022 and her debut speculative fiction novel, Soul Proprietor, will be released in September, 2026. Her speculative short fiction has been published in a variety of outlets, including Bark Magazine, Andromeda Spaceways, and the anthologies One Star Reviews of the Afterlife and Enter the Apocalypse. Her non-fiction book The Influence Game was on the Washington Post bestseller list.

Just as art imitates life, Stephanie’s inspiration as a novelist is rooted in her 30-year career as D.C.'s "Advocacy Guru" and veteran of the capital’s legislative scene. An extensive traveler and avid scuba diver, she has visited six continents and dived everywhere from Iceland to the Great Barrier Reef. She attended college on a music scholarship (flute) and holds 3 master’s degrees—which she’s pretty sure equals a Ph.D. She lives with her husband and ACD-mix puppy Trillian in Portland, OR.