Stephanie Land has an official page on Wikipedia.

Stephanie Land is a well-known author in the United States. Stephanie is best known as the author of Maid: A Mother’s Will to Survive, a book about hard work, low pay, and a mother’s will to survive.

After a car accident when she was 16, she was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, complicated by her financial troubles.

Even though she did not grow up in poverty, she spent the following many years living below the poverty line and depending on various welfare programs to meet her basic needs; this experience influenced her work on poverty and public policy.

Land stopped using food stamps after graduating from the University of Montana, started working as a freelance writer, and became a writing fellow at the Center for Community Change.