Stephanie Dolgoff has been writing and editing for magazines and newspapers since she graduated from college in 1989. Her book, MY FORMERLY HOT LIFE: DISPATCHES FROM JUST THE OTHER SIDE OF YOUNG, was a New York Times national bestseller.

Stephanie is the editor-at-large at Good Housekeeping. Before that, she was deputy editor at Woman's Day, a contributing editor at Parenting, Real Simple, health director and features director at SELF magazine, and prior to that, executive editor and senior contributing editor at Glamour. She’s written for “O” The Oprah Magazine, Fitness, Health, Parents, Redbook, Seventeen, C cosmo girl, Ladies Home Journal, Prevention, American Photo, and many others. For five years she authored a monthly sex column for teens, Ask Anything, for the now-defunct YM magazine. Her articles have also appeared in the New York Times and the New York Post.

Stephanie has won numerous awards for her writing and editing, and a section she helped to oversee, SELF magazine’s 2005 Breast Cancer Handbook, won the ASME award in the category of personal service. Her work has also been published in several books, including The Elephant in the Playroom (Penguin), and The Enlightened Bracketologist (Bloomsbury). One of her essays appeared in Behind the Bedroom Door (Delacorte), in 2008.

She attended Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT.