About Mary Alice Stephens

Mary Alice Stephens is a captivating storyteller whose award-winning memoir, Uncorked: A Memoir of Letting Go and Starting Over, unveils her raw, humorous, and profoundly inspiring journey from alcohol-fueled chaos to a life of clarity, connection, and self-acceptance. This powerful best-seller earned the 2026 PenCraft Award for Motivational Nonfiction and the 2026 International Book Award for Addiction/Recovery.

A former writer-producer for HGTV, Food Network, and other media outlets, Mary holds an MFA in creative writing from Dominican University of California and resides in Marin County, California. When she’s not writing, she can be found cyberstalking her college-age kids, planning their next family adventure, or searching for her phone.

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Read her short story about motherhood featured in Funny Pearls here.