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Stephanie Newman is a writer specializing in Central European history, literature, and culture, with a particular focus on 20th century Hungary. Stephanie is the recipient of a 2024 MacDowell fellowship in literature, and her work has earned support from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, the NYU Prague Global Research Initiative, and Tin House. As a 2023-24 Fulbright scholar, she published “Mapping Hungarian Jewish Literature,” a limited edition print project. She is currently revising her first novel. 

Stephanie graduated from the NYU MFA program in fiction in 2022 and holds a B.A. from Harvard in English. A two-time expat, she now splits her time between Budapest and the greater New York area, where she lives with her husband Nathan Gould and their mini poodle Cassie.