About Mary Alice Stephens

Award-winning author Mary Alice Stephens shares her powerful story of sobriety, family, and starting life anew at 45 in her instant best-seller, Uncorked: A Memoir of Letting Go and Starting Over. Uncorked was an Amazon #1 new release in both alcoholism recovery and midlife self-help, an Amazon best-seller in midlife self-help, and the PenCraft Winter 2026 Best Book Award Winner for Inspirational Nonfiction. Mary, a former television writer-producer for HGTV, Food Network, and other media outlets, earned her Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Dominican University of California and lives 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.