Cora Stephan (born 7 April 1951 in Strang Bad Rothenfelde, West Germany) is a German-speaking writer and essayist.
As an author of crime fiction she is known under the pseudonym Anne Chaplet.
From 1985 to 1987 she worked as a journalist in the Bonn office of the German news magazine Der Spiegel.
Today Cora Stephan lives in Mücke near Frankfurt (Germany) and Laurac-en-Vivarais (France).
Under the pseudonym Anne Chaplet she was awarded the Deutscher Krimi Preis twice (in 2001 and 2004) and received Radio Bremen Krimipreis in 2003.