Stephanie co-founded two theater companies, We Tell Stories and The Wims, where she worked as both director and performer. With writing partner Randi Johnson, Stephanie co-wrote many movie scripts, which brought in revenue, joy and heartache in equal measure.

She has traveled widely, conducting workshops in Japan, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Alaska and Hawaii.

Her short stories and memoirs have appeared in dozens of literary journals and magazines, including The Missouri Review, The Bitter Oleander, North Dakota Quarterly, and West. Her story "Perfection" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. "Delicate Touch" is included in the 2007 W.W. Norton Anthology, New Sudden Fiction. In 2008, Waxman’s collection of short stories, Sex and Death, was published by First Run Press.

She is also the author of Growing Up Feeling Good, A Helping Handbook – When A Loved One Is Critically Ill , and the internationally published What Is A Girl? What Is A Boy?, all of which are now available as free downloads in the Library (click on WRITER).

Stephanie lives in Venice, California, with Dennis Hicks, her husband of 36 years.