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Stephanie Danler (born 1983) is an American author. Her debut novel, Sweetbitter (2016), was a New York Times bestseller and was adapted into a television show by the same name. She released a memoir, Stray, in 2020. Danler has a novel forthcoming from Scribner Books titled Smog, described as a neo-noir novel that takes place in Los Angeles during the 1990s.

A television adaptation (Sweetbitter), created by Danler, Stuart Zicherman, and Plan B Entertainment, premiered on Starz in 2018 and aired for two seasons. In 2019, Danler was granted the Robert B. Heilman award by the Sewanee Review for her review of Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women.

Marion Winik, writing for The Washington Post, gave Stray a mixed review with the comment: "Despite the author’s skills at observation and phrasemaking, the narrative manages to ping-pong between the two most dangerous possibilities in memoir: boring on one side, TMI on the other." A review from the New Yorker noted that the memoir is “unsparing” but “tempered with the tenderness of Danler’s language, and with her willingness to reserve her harshest rebukes for herself.”