Sweetbitter (Danler) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—ca. 1983-1984
• Raised—Los Angeles, California, USA
• Education—M.F.A., New School
• Currently—lives in Los Angeles

Stephanie Danler is an American author, whose debut novel, Sweetbitter, was publishsed in 2016 to both great anticipation and acclaim.

Like her young narrator-herone Tess, Danler came to New York City in her early twenties and worked in restaurants. It was a job she continued up through her late twenties as a way to support herself while getting her MFA at New York's New School.

How she got her book published is the stuff of fairy tales. The story goes that Danler, then working in a West Village restaurant, approached one of the diners, who happened to be a top publisher, and pitched her book. Being polite, he agreed to take a look at it and was later "stunned" by its language, and polish. A high six-figure advance followed, and Sweetbitter was published some 18 months later.

Danler has since left New York and now lives in a 1920's cottage in the Laurel Canyons section of Los Angeles, where she writes, cooks and entertains.