Career
She also has extensive credits in writing/adapting graphic novels (including an adaptation of Anne McCaffrey"s Dragonflight), as well as editing and adapting manga. At the beginning of her career (circa 1983), she was billed as J. Brynne Stephens, then simply as Brynne Stephens. As Brynne Stephens, she published a handful of short stories and a 1986 novel called The Dream Palace, all while continuing to write numerous animated television scripts.
She also wrote the text of the 1984 videogame Dragonworld, based on the novel by Byron Preiss and Michael Reaves.
She is the mother of noted manga adapter and novelist Mallory Reaves.