All Sorrows Can Be Borne

About Loren Stephens

Loren Stephens is a widely published essayist and fiction and nonfiction storyteller. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, MacGuffin, the Jewish Women's Literary Annual, Forge, Crack the Spine, Amuse Bouche, The Writer's Launch, the Summerset Review, the Montreal Literary Review, and Tablet Travel Magazine, to name a few. She is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and her book with Cliff Simon, Paris Nights: My Year at the Moulin Review, was named one of the best titles from an independent press by Kirkus. She is president and founder of the ghostwriting companies Write Wisdom and Bright Star Memoirs. Prior to establishing her company Loren was a documentary filmmaker. Among her credits are Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist with on camera narration by Burt Lancaster, produced for PBS and nominated for an Emmy Award; Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman?, produced for Coronet Films and recipient of a Golden Apple from the National Education Association; and Los Pastores: The Shepherd's Play, produced for the Latino Consortium of PBS and recipient of a Cine Gold Eagle and nominated for an Imagen Award. She is a member of the Regional Board of the Anti-Defamation League; a member of its Deborah Awards Committee for Outstanding Women; and a member of Greenlight Women, an organization of women in the entertainment industry who serve as mentors.