Stephanie Gorton wrote Citizen Reporters: S. S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine that Rewrote America (2020), a finalist for the Sperber Prize for journalism biography. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, Smithsonian, Paris Review Daily, LitHub, and Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications, and she has appeared on radio shows including On Point and History This Week. Previously, she held editorial roles at Canongate Books, The Overlook Press, and Open Road, and fellowships with the Logan Nonfiction Program at the Carey Institute for Global Good and the Massachusetts Historical Society. Lebanese-American by birth, Gorton lives in Providence, Rhode Island. Her forthcoming book is about 1910s-1930s movement to legalize birth control.