Stephanie Staal spent several years in the film and publishing industries as a literary scout before turning to writing as a career. After working as a features reporter for the Newark Star-Ledger, she wrote The Love They Lost (Delacorte, 2000), a journalistic memoir about the long-term effects of parental divorce on her generation. A graduate of Barnard College and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, she now lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she is working on her second book.

As a freelance journalist for newspapers and magazines, I focus primarily on women's issues, sociological trends, and general human-interest sories. My articles and essays have appeared in Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Self, and The Washington Post.

The Love They Lost: Living with the Legacy of Our Parents' Divorce (Delta, 2001) ia a personal history of, by, and for the first generation of divorce. Drawing on extensive interviews with 120 adult children of divorce, The Love They Lost gives voice to a generation's struggle to reconcile the emotional blueprints their parents left them with the lives they want to build as adults. Weaving reporting and memoir, storytelling and social observation, The Love They Lost is essential reading for every adult child of divorce who longs to make peace with the past and build a rewarding life --- and for everyone who cares about the future of the American family. The book has been featured in Time, People, USA Weekend, Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, CNN, Lifetime, WNYC, among others.

As an independent editor, I have worked on books that garnered attention from such major publications as The Washington Post, Newsweek, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and the Boston Globe, among others. I am also currently an editorial consultant for Cyan Books, an independent publisher of non-fiction books based in London. To learn more about Cyan, please visit www.cyanbooks.com.

New and Forthcoming Titles from Cyan Books: Tramps Like Us: A Suburban Confession by Kristen Buckley www.myspace.com/trampslikeus_jerseytales Failure: An Autobiography by Joshua Gidding www.amazon.com Don't Be That Guy by Colin Nissan and Sean Farrell www.dontbethatguybook.com 25 Lessons by lorenzo www.flickr.com/photos/lorenzodom High Tea in Mosul by Lynne O' Donnell www.highteainmosul.com Brotherhood of Eternal Love by Stewart Tendler and David May The Book of Happy Endings by Elise Valmorbida