Stephanie Foo (Stevenson ’08, literature) didn’t spend a great deal of time at UC Santa Cruz as a young English major but her January 2020 return to campus helped her to remember one healing aspect of ...

Sarah McCammon speaks with author and journalist Stephanie Foo about her new book, "What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma." Stephanie Foo grew up in California, the only child of ...

Writer and former "This American Life" producer Stephanie Foo's memoir on healing from complex PTSD contains such distressing descriptions of abuse that she felt it necessary to write in her prologue, ...

Foo, radio journalist and former producer of This American Life, recounts her astounding story of living with complex PTSD (C-PTSD), a diagnosis that describes the psychological pain experienced by ...

A couple years out of UC Santa Cruz, Stephanie Foo decided she wanted to work for the radio show This American Life. She was a frustrated journalist working as a graphic designer and, in her own words ...

Three recent memoirs detail various injustices inflicted on young female bodies. Credit...John Gall Supported by By Nadia Owusu By age 11, Sara Kruzan had endured terrible abuse. Her mother was ...

Stephanie Foo grew up in California, the only child of immigrants who abused her for years and then abandoned her as a teenager. As an adult, Foo seemed to thrive. She graduated from college, landed a ...