Stephanie was born and raised in Kansas.  She comes from a large family and has four brothers and three sisters.  She and her husband Norm blended a family when they married in 1988 and share four children together. Stephanie has resided both in England and Germany. She lived in the California Mojave Desert town of Ridgecrest for twenty years and then lived in the Boston area for more than a decade. Upon retiring in 2010 she and her husband Norm moved to Brighton, Colorado.

Although interested in stained glass art she quickly discovered that although she liked the look of stained glass, she preferred the challenge and excitement she found working with warm fused glass.  

Stephanie has been working in this medium since 1998.  She took classes at Snow Farm in New England and joined the New England Glass Guild while living there.  She has taken classes from well-known glass artists such as Patty Grey, Anne Nye, Paul Messink and Nathan Sandburg.  In a recent class taught by Shelley Long she discovered a love for enamel painting on glass.  Working with enamels married her love of oil painting and playing with glass. 

Stephanie has participated in the Art at the Armory, the Art in The Park and at the Echter’s Glass show with the Glass Artists of Colorado. She currently displays her work at Main Street Gallery.