Stephanie Elie developed her love for storytelling as a young child. Her dad was in the Air Force, which allowed her to be exposed to different countries and cultures. Not knowing the language in those areas, she often made up her own stories about the people she met and saw. 

Her parents would often take long drives to explore their new cities and countries. Prone to motion sickness, Stephanie wasn’t able to read books during these explorations so she created her own stories in her head.

It wasn’t until high school that she completed her first screenplay after picking up Syd Field’s book Foundations of Screenwriting. She instantly fell in love with the craft. Through high school and college, she spent her free time writing. She majored in Journalism at California State University, Long Beach, and took every available screenwriting course. In 2004, she was a finalist in the USC Guy Hanks & Marvin Miller screenwriting fellowship.

When she’s not working on her next screenplay, she works as a Content Designer and UX Writer helping brands and businesses tell their brand story through websites, apps, and online tools. 

Her feature screenplay Alpha 8 was a finalist in the 2020 Emerging Screenwriters Genre Competition and the Table Ready my Screenplay Genre Competition. And her feature screenplay Maxine was a finalist in the Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Competition and Breaking Walls Thriller Competition.