Background
Stansfield was born in Provo, Utah.
Stansfield was born in Provo, Utah.
She is the Latter- Day Saints (Mormons) market"s best-selling romance novelist, with sales of nearly half a million. She has published many novels since her first publication in 1994, as well as a collection of personal essays, most of which are oriented toward Latter-day Saint readers. She is also an occasional public speaker at local events for Latter- Day Saints (Mormons) women as well as firesides for young men and young women.
Stansfield is a former president of the Utah Valley Chapter of the League of Utah Writers.
She has also won the Independent Latter- Day Saints (Mormons) Booksellers" "Best Fiction Award" for her first published book, First Love and Forever. She has also won the League of Utah Writers" "Golden Quill" award multiple times, as well as Covenant Communications" 1997 special award for "Pioneering New Ground in Latter- Day Saints (Mormons) Fiction." In 2007, she won the Lifetime Achievement award from the Whitney Awards program