Mary Alexandra Stiefvater is a writer, actor and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in The Stockton Record and Bibliophone. She has authored over 27 books. In 2020, one of her haikus, Home Sweet Home, was included in the Alan Nakagawa exhibit "Social Distance, Haiku and You" in collaboration with the Orange County Museum of Art. She has written and performed pieces for LA’s famed Rant & Rave and Theatre of Note's Marathon. Her poem, The Unknown, is part of the SAFER AT HOME Pandemic Collection through the LA County Library. She was featured in the book, La Route 66, Vue Par Les Frères Reitzaum and is herself a character in Matt Kruze’s The Coming Of The Storm. She also wrote a piece entitled 9/11, 20 years, for the 9/11 Memorial & Museum. An award-winning screenwriter, her screenplay, No Place Like Home, was part of the Scripts in Play series at the iconic Electric Lodge.