Background
Stevens grew up in Scarsdale, New York and San Antonio, Texas.
Stevens grew up in Scarsdale, New York and San Antonio, Texas.
Vassar College.
She is also a regular on the magazine"s weekly cultural podcast the Culture Gabfest. She joined Slate in mid-2003, writing the magazine"s Surfergirl column on television and popular-culture. Before joining Slate she wrote under the pseudonym "Liz Penn" on her own (now defunct) web website/blog called the High Sign.
She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post Book World, Bookforum, and The Atlantic and has appeared on several occasions on Charlie Rose and The Brian Lehrer Show.
She is a regular on Slate"s Culture Gabfest. She lives in Brooklyn, New New York
As of 2010, the movie review aggregation website Metacritic weighted reviews by Stevens with their second-lowest weight.
She attained a doctorate in comparative literature from University of California Berkeley in 2001 with a dissertation on Fernando Pessoa: A Local Habitation and a Name: Heteronymy and Nationalism in the works of Fernando Pessoa.
