Stephanie Gorton wrote "The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry that Brought Birth Control to America" (2024), which won the ASJA Award for Biography/History, was a finalist for the Plutarch Award for biography, and was longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize. Her first book was "Citizen Reporters: S. S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine that Rewrote America" (2020), a finalist for the Sperber Prize for journalism biography.

Previously, she held editorial roles at Canongate Books, The Overlook Press, and Open Road, and fellowships with the Logan Nonfiction Program at the Carey Institute for Global Good and the Massachusetts Historical Society. She has guest-taught at institutions including NYU, Northeastern, and Goucher College, and been a guest speaker at the Southern Festival of Books, WAWA Welcome America Festival, Brandeis Book & Author Festival, and Women’s Bar Association of Massachusetts. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, Boston Globe, and Smithsonian, among other publications, and she has appeared on radio shows including On Point and Slate Political Gabfest.

Lebanese American by birth, she lives in Providence, Rhode Island.