Steven Hayward Long (July 17, 1944 – April 23, 2022), from Houston, Texas, was an American journalist, magazine publisher and author of three true crime books and one novel.

Long spent four years at Galveston's KILE radio as an advertising sales associate while also reading the news and coordinating a weekly high school sports program during football season.

After closing the newspaper In Between in 1988, Long spent six years as a features writer for the Houston Chronicle and then as a freelancer covering high-profile Texas cases for national publications.

While at the Chronicle, he wrote investigative reports, including exposing the dealings of the late Houston adoption attorney Leslie Thacker, who was convicted of buying and selling so-called drug-addicted crack babies in some Texas county jails.

[8] As a freelance contract correspondent, Long was assigned by The New York Post to cover several high-profile Texas criminal cases as they unfolded in the late 1990s.

He also covered the complex Enron-related trial of former accounting firm Arthur Andersen for Agence France Press and Crain's Chicago Business.

[15] He also was given an award from the American Quarter Horse Association for his 2003 article "Hoofbeats on Hollow Ground," published in Texas Parks and Wildlife magazine.