Stephanie Schroeder is a lesbian feminist writer and activist. Her essays have been anthologized in the classic, That's Revolting: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, Here Come the Brides: Reflections on Lesbian Love and Marriage, and Easy to Love but Hard to Live With: Real People, Invisible Disabilities, True Stories. Her journalism can also be found in The Guardian Us, Life of the Law, Lambda Literary Review Curve Magazine, and GO Magazine. She is based in Brooklyn, New York. Beautiful Wreck is her first book (www.beautifulwreck.com). Stephanie Schroeder graduated from Hunter College in New York City at age 30 and from New York Law School at age 33. She she likes the color purple and sometimes green, pomegranates, country music, women, radical activism and books, not necessarily in that order. See https://stephanieschroeder.contently.com for more information about her journalism.