“I was a late bloomer, but anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”
-- Sharon Olds


Stephanie Gangi is a lifelong New Yorker. She lives, works and writes in Manhattan. She was born in Brooklyn, raised on Long Island, attended the State University of New York at Buffalo, and raised her own kids in Tribeca, Rockland County and on the Upper West Side.

Gangi’s first publishing credit, many years ago, was a children’s book, Lumpy: A Baseball Fable, co-written with pitching great (and New York Met) Tug McGraw. She ghostwrote a palimony-fueled tell-all about Liberace in 1984 but left the only copy in a taxicab. She has written jacket copy, pitch letters, business plans, PowerPoint presentations, speeches, mortgage checks, absence excuse notes, menus, and letters to editors, hundreds of poems, dozens of story starts, dating profiles, countless emails and texts and tweets and FB posts, and yes, a couple of really lame sexts. She once chalked a love note on the wall of a Paris alley in the rain.

She is an award-winning poet working on a compiling a chapbook, and is at work on her second novel.

The Next is her debut.