Stephanie Van Schilt is a writer, editor and podcaster based in Melbourne, Australia.

Stephanie has been published broadly in outlets including the Guardian, Crime Reads, ELLE.com, The Saturday Paper and VICE. Her work focuses on pop culture, reality TV and criticism.
You can read a selection of her published work on this site.

Stephanie has created, written and produced podcasts for Audible, Spotify and Southern Cross Austereo. Stephanie wrote and produced eight-episodes of fiction rom-com podcast The Younger Man and
co-created comedy podcast Food Crime.

Stephanie has hosted various events and festival panels, featured on various local and international podcasts and received various grants and awards for her work (shortlisted for Smart Like A Girl: ROAR screenwriting initiative; Melbourne Writers Festival 30 Under 30; Monash University John Flaus Prize). 

In 2008, Stephanie completed a Bachelor of Arts (Hon) in Film and Television Studies. From 2007–2013 she worked as an arts program administrator at the NGV and Film Victoria and has worked as a sessional tutor and lecturer at Monash University, focusing on film and television studies, gender, arts criticism and memoir.

Stephanie has written copy for a number of various corporate and government clients.

Contact: s.vanschilt@gmail.com