--- title: Stephanie Land | TIME description: Stephanie Land is the author of Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education and Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive. canonical: https://time.com/author/stephanie-land/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/stephanie-land/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Stephanie Land ## Stephanie Land Stephanie Land is the author of [_Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education_](https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9781982151393) and [_Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to_ _Survive_](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316505099/ref=as%5Fli%5Fqf%5Fasin%5Fil%5Ftl?ie=UTF8&tag=time037-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0316505099&linkId=86bcfdf7878fc42b5126c2edb88044f9)_._ ## Stephanie Land *  Oct 30, 2025 ### [The Hunger Is the Point](https://time.com/7329421/snap-benefits-shutdown-food-stamps-hunger/) This is what happens when the safety net drops out beneath 42 million Americans, writes Stephanie La... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Mar 6, 2025 ### [I Resisted Hiring Cleaners After Writing 'Maid'](https://time.com/7261471/stephanie-land-maid-hire-housecleaner-essay/) Stephanie Land on why she couldn't bring herself to hire house cleaners for six years after publishi... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Nov 7, 2023 ### [We Had Little Money. My Kid Still Deserved Joy](https://time.com/6328912/stephanie-land-class-poverty-joy-essay/) 'Class' author Stephanie Land on creating special moments for her child amid financial precarity [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Sep 30, 2021 ### [I Left Poverty After Writing 'Maid.' But Poverty Never Left Me](https://time.com/6102655/maid-stephanie-land-poverty/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Nov 7, 2020 ### [Biden, Harris and the Return of Empathy](https://time.com/5908833/joe-biden-empathy/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/stephanie-land/","name":"Stephanie Land"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/stephanie-land/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/stephanie-land/"},"name":"Stephanie Land","jobTitle":null,"description":"Stephanie Land is the author of Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education and Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive.","url":"https://time.com/author/stephanie-land/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```