Stephanie Skaff writes fiction and music. She's made performance projects about NYC street vendors, an aging custom machinist named Hugo, and a woman growing up, working in and disappearing from the town of Wassaic, NY. 

In 2015, she earned her MFA in fiction writing from Hunter College. Her writing has been published in McSweeney's Quarterly, Brooklyn Rail and Lovers & Other Strangers. Her performance projects have been supported by The Street Vendor Project, Vermont Studio Center, The Wassaic Project, Guapamacataro Interdisciplinary Center for Art and Ecology, XO Projects, Inc. and UnionDocs, as well as Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Puffin Foundation Ltd. and Princess Grace Foundation - USA. 

Stephanie is the Executive Director of play:groundNYC, an organization dedicated to transforming the city through play. Prior to play:groundNYC, she served as Development Director at DCTV and Development Manager at MASS MoCA. She was a member of the 2022-2023 cohort of North Star Fund's People Power Giving Project, raising money to support Black-led organizing in NYC and the Hudson Valley through the Let Us Breathe Fund. She and her husband live in Brooklyn, NY with their son and aging pitbull. She is always very happy on the mat, training in jiu jitsu and kickboxing.

Contact: steph.skaff@gmail.com | linkedin.com/in/stephanie-frances-skaff