Dorothy Stephens is a freelance writer whose work has appeared over the past thirty years in numerous national magazines, newspapers, and journals. She was a finalist for the 1996 Bakeless Prize in Nonfiction and a Scholar at the 1997 Bread Loaf Writers Conference.

The author of a memoir, Kwa Heri Means Goodbye; Memories of Kenya 1957-1959, she is also the co-author of Discovering Marblehead; Open Spaces and Historic Places. Her latest release is A Door Just Opened, a YA novel.