— Novelist · Essayist

Stories for
the quiet
in between.

Stephanie writes literary fiction about memory, place, and the small acts of tenderness that hold ordinary lives together. Four novels. One voice you won’t forget.

“The most quietly devastating novelist of her generation.”

The Paris Review

Novels published

Countries translated

2M+

Copies in print

PEN/Faulkner Award

01 — The Books

A shelf built on patience.

Each of Steph’s novels is a small world, drawn with restraint and uncommon empathy. Begin anywhere — they are all doorways to the same country.

02 — About

She writes like
she’s listening.

Elena Marlowe was born in Lisbon and raised between Portugal and Northern California. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has taught fiction at Stanford, Sarah Lawrence, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

Her novels have been translated into twenty-seven languages and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

— always with love, Steph

03 — Praise

“Marlowe belongs to a rare tradition of writers who understand that the most important sentences are the ones a lesser author would leave out.”

— The New Yorker

Letters from the writing desk.

An occasional newsletter with new writing, reading notes, and early word on the next novel. Never more than once a month.

STEPHANIE WANDKE

Stories for the quiet in between.

A shelf built on patience.

She writes like she’s listening.

Letters from the writing desk.

Stories for
the quiet
in between.

She writes like
she’s listening.