Memoir short: the book I risked my job to publish

From the days when I was an acquiring editor in book publishing

Stephenie Magister ✨
10 min readApr 22, 2022
Check out that gnarly scar on my orbital socket… Don’t pick fights with the pavement, kids!!

Hi! It’s Stephenie. I’ve done lots of different things as a storyteller, including working as an acquiring and senior editor for a variety of publishers.

I clearly write a lot of my own stuff, but there’s something about empowering other people to tell their stories that fills me with a joy I can’t live without. Especially when writing has been the one thing that’s always come so easily to me. I speak the language of storytelling like it’s my native tongue.

And to tell you the truth…it is. I kinda struggle to communicate with people the normal way. It’s just a product of me being neurodivergent (and traumatized lol but I’m in recovery and therapy ❤). Those two things mean that while I’m not very at good at much of anything else, when it comes to storytelling…I’ve got what it takes, Mom!

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Stephenie Magister ✨

| 40 Under 40 Nominee | Queer History with Step-Hen-ie | Former editor for award-winning and best-selling authors | https://linktr.ee/StephenieMagister