Stephanie Losee

Stephanie Losee is co-author of the upcoming book Office Mate: The Employee Handbook for Finding—and Managing—Romance on the Job. In the book she and co-author Helaine Olen explain why work just might be the perfect place to find true love. Stephanie Losee is also co-author of You've Only Got Three Seconds: How to Make the Right Impression in Your Business and Social Life, co-written with Camille Lavington and published by Doubleday in hardcover in 1997 and in paperback in 1998. The book was a selection of the Money Book Club and the Forbes Book Club and has been translated into Danish and Korean, of all things. Her personal essays have appeared in several publications and in anthologies that include Cup of Comfort for Writers, The Maternal is Political, and Horse Crazy. She is a frequent commentator on KQED, Northern California Public Radio. Her stories have been published in The Los Angeles Times, Fortune, the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, The New York Post, The Huffington Post, Child, the Mountain Gazette, and many Web sites including ivillage.com. She was a frequent anchor for The Fortune Business Report on cable station NY1 News and has appeared as a commentator on CNBC and TechTV. The first chapter of her memoir-in-progress, “Ella’s Restaurant,” was a finalist in creative nonfiction for the 2004 New Letters Award. Away from her desk she is an open-water swimmer, a mountaineer, an Opera Guild director, a former New Yorker, a current San Franciscan, a wife, and the mother of three daughters ages 2 to 12.