Stephanie Fairbanks is a teacher and consultant with an MA in gifted education. She has been an adjunct instructor for Florida State University and the University of West Florida. She also coordinated the governor’s summer program for gifted middle school students at the University of South Florida. Stephanie has been involved in theatre as an actor, director and playwright. She began writing monologs as part of the writing and acting workshops she designed for her students. Her scripts have been used in the classroom, for auditions and in competition. Stephanie and her husband, Greg Smallwood, live with Carthage, their cat, in Summerville, South Carolina.