Stephanie Davies is a writer who worked for many years in communications for Doctors Without Borders and now works as a speechwriter at UNAIDS. In 2024, she was awarded Lambda Literary’s Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction for Other Girls Like Me and her work-in-progress Other Queers Like Me.

A UK native, Stephanie moved to New York in the early nineties, where she taught English Composition at Long Island University in Brooklyn and led research trips to Cuba. Before moving to New York, she co-edited a grassroots LGBTQ magazine in Brighton called A Queer Tribe. Stephanie earned a French and ESL teaching degree from Aberystwyth University in Wales, and a BA in European Studies from Bath University, England. She grew up in a small village in Hampshire and at the age of 22, joined a women's peace camp outside a US military base at Greenham Common in Newbury, a life-changing experience that is at the heart of Other Girls Like Me. Today, Stephanie divides her time between Brooklyn and the Hudson Valley, New York where she lives with her wife, Bea, and rescue pitbull mix, Pongo. (Photo is of her former beloved dog, Emma Peel.)

“Stephanie Davies’ book, Other Girls Like Me, recalls the queer feminist culture, community, music, activism, and protest of the 70s and 80s with humor and wit. Her work in progress is a moving and promising work of intimacy and friendship in the face of loss. We are excited for her future projects.”

— Lambda Literary 2024 Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction

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