Stephanie Dowrick (born 2 June 1947) is an Australian writer, Interfaith Minister and social activist.

[8][9] Dowrick was an Adjunct Fellow with the Writing and Society Research Group at Western Sydney University,[10] where she graduated with a PhD degree in 2008.

[15] In 1977, Dowrick co-founded the independent feminist publishing house, The Women's Press, from her home in East London,[16][17][2] with financial backing from entrepreneur Naim Attallah.

[22] The Women's Press published other influential 20th-century feminist writers, including Alice Walker,[23] whose Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple "transformed African-American literature",[24] Janet Frame,[25] [26] Andrea Dworkin,[27] Lucy Goodison, Joanna Ryan, May Sarton, Susan Griffin and Lisa Alther.

Dowrick's first novel, Running Backwards Over Sand (1985),[34] was autobiographical in part with the book's protagonist Zoe Delightey's mother dying at an early age.

[35][36] In a review of Choosing Happiness (2006), The Age newspaper wrote: "Dowrick's gift is to bring the sacred into the mundane.

[46] She is a literary journalist and columnist for Fairfax Media on issues of ethics and social justice,[47] feminism,[48] spirituality,[49] and refugees in Australia.

[50] She has appeared as a regular guest on ABC Radio on a range of programmes including Life Matters,[51] The Spirit of Things,[52] All in the Mind,[53] and Tony Delroy's NightLife.