Stephanie Foo

In 2018, Stephanie Foo was diagnosed with Complex PTSD, an under-researched and under-diagnosed condition. After her diagnosis, Stephanie decided to write a book on C-PTSD; that book – her critically-acclaimed memoir, What My Bones Know – was published in 2022. Publisher’s Weekly’s starred review called it, “A work of immense beauty.”  

Stephanie is a storyteller at heart. As a child, Stephanie created comics, got her start in print journalism, then became fascinated with audio narratives. She’s worked as a radio producer for This American Life, Snap Judgment and freelanced for podcasts like Invisibilia, The Cut, Nancy, Reply All and 99% Invisible. At This American Life, she reported, edited, and mixed radio stories and often produced entire shows. Stephanie produced This American Life’s video project, “Videos 4 U: I Love You,” which garnered three Daytime Emmy nominations and won the 2015 Webby Award for Online Film & Video in Drama: Individual Short or Episode category. She also co-produced a video series for TAL that won an Emmy, and altogether, she has worked in audio for over a decade. 

Her work has been featured in places like The New York Times and Vox, and from 2019-2020, Stephanie was a Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Fellow.  

Stephanie lives in Brooklyn. You can often find her in Forest Park, saving trees and harvesting acorns as one of the park’s six “Super Stewards.”