Stephanie Raffelock

The way I like to tell my story is that I ran away from home when I was seventeen. The truth is, my mother drove me. She dropped me in Los Angels where I got my first job writing liner notes for a Jack Jones album. Later I would work as a production assistant during the languishing days of musical variety television for shows like The Midnight Special and Madam’s Place. My last job in television was at Orion, where I worked in development. That was a good job, because it led me to take my first writing class, which in turn spurred me to return to school. I was a high school dropout who earned a G.E.D. in my thirties while attempting to redeem myself at Santa Monica Community College. While there, I won first place in a short story competition that spanned a half a dozen other colleges and gave me the confidence to believe that I could become a writer. Naropa University’s program in Creative Writing and Poetics awarded me a Bachelor of Arts Degree in1991. I worked my writer’s internship at The Boulder Daily Camera newspaper, and even though it happened a long time ago, I still like to tell the story of how I once interviewed Alan Ginsberg for the Aspen Times. I have blogged for Storyfix.com, Stephanieraffelock.com and Care2.com and I currently contribute articles to Sixtyandme.com as well as The Huffington Post. Writing and hiking the Oregon woods make up my days. I’m living the dream and it’s a good ride. My debut novel is represented by Dystel / Goderich Literary Management (DGLM) in New York City.