Click on the video above to hear about Stephanie’s experience with Writer’s Relief!

It’s such a joy to have been working with Stephanie Kaplan Cohen since the very beginning, when Writer’s Relief started in 1994. Stephanie is a tremendous writer: persistent, focused, and successful! She has earned more publication credits with Writer’s Relief than we can count (well, we could count…but it would take very a long time to do it!).

Stephanie’s submission strategist (who is also a big fan) describes Stephanie as funny, feisty, and upbeat. She presents her characters with full-frontal, even outrageous honesty, and yet she doesn’t sacrifice nuance or depth for superficial shock value. Her personal essays and memoir about growing up in Long Island show us a woman who is part preservationist, part historian, part artist. It’s no wonder that editors love her!

Learn more about Stephanie at this link: Stephanie Kaplan Cohen.

In Her Own Words

When I began to write in earnest, Writer’s Relief became my editor, cheering squad, and agent all rolled into one. To my amazement and delight, I received five acceptances in the first year.

My manuscripts are corrected and ready to go, and my work is submitted to appropriate publications.

Writer’s Relief and I have been working colleagues for almost twenty years, during which time I have had many acceptances, published many pieces that are included in my two published books.

The people I have been lucky enough to work with have all been a delight. Although we have never met, each and every one of them has become a friend who rejoices in any success I have. Hooray for Writer’s Relief. 

About Stephanie: Stephanie Kaplan Cohen lives with her husband Charles in Westchester, New York. Her work has appeared in numerous literary magazines, university presses, and anthologies and newspapers (including the New York Times). Stephanie is a proud member of the Authors Guild and International Women’s Writing Guild.

She has held positions as an elementary education teacher, a medical social worker, a teacher/therapist of emotionally disturbed children in the public schools of New York City, a social worker in Family Court, as well as a desk clerk on a Commodity Exchange.

Additionally, Stephanie has enjoyed a lifelong commitment to community service. She served as President of the Mental Health Division of Lexington School for the Deaf, President of Westchester and Putnam County Alzheimer’s Association, and continues to write a column, “Ask Stephanie,” for the Alzheimer’s Newsletter. Stephanie has served in numerous other volunteer positions, including vice-president of American Jewish Committee of Westchester and United Jewish Appeal of Westchester.

It was always Stephanie’s ambition to become a published writer. Stephanie and Charles are the parents of three children, three in-law children, and eight grandchildren, all of whom are exceptional in all ways.