[5] She won two New York Press Club awards in 2015, for her profiles of Damon Lindelof and Britney Spears.

[13] In 2023, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.

Her second novel, Long Island Compromise, was published in July 2024 by Random House in the US[14] and by Wildfire in the UK.

[15] Born Stephanie Akner, Brodesser-Akner received the nickname "Taffy" at a young age and continued using it professionally.

[17] Brodesser converted to Judaism,[17] a process that eventually led Akner to evaluate and reinforce her own observance of Jewish customs.