Stefanie Briar is a queer 37-year-old poet and editor from New Jersey. She is known for creating powerful, relatable, accessible poetry and prose that stands out from the crowd. Her goals are to make her readers feel seen/understood and to prove that poetry is not a dead language. Aside from her own author career, she uses her university degrees and 14 years of experience teaching English to work as a freelance editor. Poets who are publishing books of their own hire her to edit and proofread their manuscripts.

Her latest release, "Iron & Velvet" (2023) quickly joined the ranks of "Surrender" (2022), "Shades of Ruin" (2022), and "Burn" (2021) as #1 bestsellers on Amazon. She also wrote "Cosmosis" and "Homecoming" back in 2020.

Authored Works:

Her debut book, "Cosmosis", a poetic journey through love/heartbreak, was released on 4/26/20. This book is a missions project where royalties are donated to anti-racism causes and organizations, such as Black Girls Code, The Loveland Foundation, and the NAACP.

Briar released her second book, "Homecoming", on 1/1/21. This book of poetry and prose chronicles healing, strength, wisdom, and finding your way back home to yourself.

"Burn", her third book, was released on 4/18/21, and became a #1 New Release. "Burn" is bold, fiery, passionate, and powerful in its poetic journey through the multitudes of life, self, and love. Most of the book's poetry uses fire metaphors, imagery, and/or allusions. Stef cites "Burn" as the book that "put her on the map" as a modern poet.

"Shades of Ruin" was released on 1/11/22, debuting as a #1 New Release in numerous categories and quickly becoming a #1 bestseller. This short collection of poems is an emotional powerhouse, more of a continuously-moving story arc than an anthology, and reads like a poetic novella. It follows a love story from the initial collision all the way up through the letting go. The writing is raw, brutal, honest, passionate, and magnificently crafted.

"Surrender" (Stefanie's personal favorite of her published works) was released on 8/12/22, her 37th birthday. It began its life as #1 New Release in 6 Amazon categories and went on to hit #1 bestseller rankings numerous times, It has surpassed "Burn" as her #1 selling book. Surrender is a celebration of healing, change, acceptance, and love. It poetically chronicles what it is to live, feel, love, grow, let go, and find peace within yourself. No topics are off limits, and this is her most diverse body of work to date. Among the subjects are:
-healing
-overcoming past trauma
-mending the heart
-putting past relationships into perspective
-self love
- personal growth
-claiming your power
-coming out as queer
-sapphic love
-letting love back in again

"Iron & Velvet" released on April 1, 2023 as an instant #1 bestseller. This book is a poetic journey through a heart breaking and then blooming. The first chapter "The Iron" chronicles heartbreak, breaking up, loss, grief, pain, and dark night of the soul. These poems are raw and will grip the soul. "The Velvet" chapter 2, details the journey back to one's center, where healing takes place. It is full of heartfelt truths, bits of wisdom, gentle reminders, sound advice, and extremely relatable poems about coming back home to yourself after your heart has been broken.


Stefanie has a growing readership of over 350,000 across her 2 platforms. She is humbled and grateful to be able to share her love of words with the world.