Stephanie Land

Missoula

NYT bestselling author of MAID (& inspiration for #MAIDnetflix!). Forthcoming book CLASS: @OneSignalPub Rep’d: @MollieGlick Speaking: @LyceumAgency she/her

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Why the Author of 'Maid' Resisted Hiring House Cleaners

1 month ago | time.com | Stephanie Land

IdeasBy Stephanie LandMarch 6, 2025 7:00 AM ESTLand is the author of Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education and Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay and a Mother's Will to SurviveIn the six years since I published Maid, almost every person who’s interviewed me has asked me the same question: Do I, a person who became kind of famous for writing about cleaning people’s houses, have a housecleaner myself? The simple answer was no. But it was not because my house was already spotless.
I Wrote 'Maid.' Six Years Later, I Hired House Cleaners

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Stephanie Land

Credit - Pocketlight/Getty ImagesIn the six years since I published Maid, almost every person who’s interviewed me has asked me the same question: Do I, a person who became kind of famous for writing about cleaning people’s houses, have a housecleaner myself? The simple answer was no. But it was not because my house was already spotless. Far from it. The truth was, I just couldn’t bring myself to do it.
Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week starts Monday, Nov. 18

Nov 15, 2024 | news.wwu.edu | Stephanie Land

The Basic Needs Hub is hosting several events from Nov. 18-22 for Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week. All events are free for WWU students and employees and are open to all members of the community. Author Stephanie LandBestselling author Stephanie Land will be at Western on Tuesday, Nov. 19. Stephanie is the author of Maid (adopted into a miniseries on Netflix starring Margaret Qualley) and Class.
Stephanie Land: Missoula ordinance against urban camping will only keep people homeless

Jun 20, 2024 | missoulian.com | Stephanie Land

My oldest daughter moved to Missoula when she was 4. She’ll be 17 on summer solstice. I chose Missoula 13 years ago because of its family-oriented and compassionate community. We really needed that. We became homeless when my daughter was seven months-old. After endless emotional abuse, her dad became violent, and I left with only $200, no job, and no child care. I was grateful to have a car where we could nap, eat, and store our things.
Halle Berry, Jill Biden and Kesha Join 'Unreasonable Conversation'

Mar 27, 2024 | exbulletin.com | Stephanie Land

HAS At a talk at the Getty Center in Los Angeles on Monday, the star regaled an audience of TV and film writers, Hollywood executives and activists with a deeply personal episode: About three years ago, when she felt excruciating pain after sex with her newborn. partner, Berry's doctor diagnosed her with the worst case of herpes he had ever seen, she recalls.
Amazon's Pirated Copy of MAID

Mar 11, 2024 | stephanieland.substack.com | Stephanie Land

Ahead of my first memoir’s five-year pub date anniversary, I did some inventory of the copies of books I had on hand, including foreign copies. It’d been a while since I looked up how many languages MAID had been published in, and I counted several times to make sure I got the total correct. Thirty??! My personal copies did not amount to that number. They were supposed to, since every contract with a foreign publisher includes a few author copies. It appeared I was missing seven.
Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education

Feb 25, 2024 | libraryjournal.com | Stephanie Land

. Nov. 2023. 8:31 hrs. ISBN 9781797164205. $23.99. MEMOIR COPY ISBN Land’s first memoir, Maid, told the story of how she navigated harrowing economic circumstances and supported her daughter by cleaning houses. Her latest memoir continues where she left off, having moved to Missoula, MT, from Washington State.
Author and public speaker Stephanie Land on self-advocacy and the pressures of success

Jan 21, 2024 | thecreativeindependent.com | Stephanie Land

Author and public speaker Stephanie Land on the pressures surrounding a sophomore book, dealing with writer’s block, and becoming a public speaker in spite of having crippling anxiety. Writing, Anxiety, Mental health, Time management, Money, Success, Identity Highlights on In both of your memoirs, Maid and Class, you include a lot of detail around juggling child rearing with non-creative work, going to school, and writing.
Un- and underemployment and poverty in America

Nov 21, 2023 | marconews.com | Stephanie Land

"Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education" By Stephanie Land c. 2023, One Signal Publishers/Atria $28, 288 pages The struggle is real. In order to have things, you must have money. To have money, you'll need a job. To have enough money, you'll need a better job. To have a better job, you need an education. To have an education, you need money, and so it goes. The struggle is real, especially if you're a single mom on the verge of homelessness.
The Three Car Crashes That Changed My Life

Nov 13, 2023 | narratively.com | Stephanie Land

With the deadline for the 2023 Narratively Memoir Prize just a couple weeks away, for #MemoirMonday this week we’re revisiting this Narratively Classic from our guest judge, Stephanie Land. As Stephanie mentioned in our interview with her, this story went on to become part of her hit memoir, Maid, and is mentioned in her just-released follow-up, Class. When I think of the two months I spent in France in my late twenties, I think of Mom, crying and drunk in the back seat of a car.