Stacey Shubitz is an author, certified literacy specialist, and a former classroom teacher who taught fifth grade at P.S. 171 in East Harlem, NY and fourth grade at The Learning Community in Central Falls, RI. In 2009, Stacey turned her passion for supporting teachers with balanced literacy instruction into a career as a literacy consultant based in Central Pennsylvania.

Stacey is the Chief of Operations and Lead Writer for Two Writing Teachers, a blog she co-founded in 2007. In addition, she’s the co-host of the Two Writing Teachers Podcast, which started in 2022 as a companion to the blog.

Stacey is the co-author of Jump Into Writing: A Workshop Approach (Zaner-Bloser, 2021), the co-author of Welcome to Writing Workshop: Engaging Today’s Students with a Model that Works (Stenhouse Publishers, 2019), the author of Craft Moves: Lesson Sets for Teaching Writing with Mentor Texts (Stenhouse Publishers, 2016), and the co-author of Day by Day: Refining Writing Workshop Through 180 Days of Reflective Practice (Stenhouse Publishers, 2010). Stacey has a M.A. in Literacy Education from Teachers College at Columbia University and a M.S.Ed. in Childhood Education from Hunter College of the City of New York. A Kappa Delta Pi Teacher of Honor, Stacey presents at local, state, and national conferences and has published articles for a variety of publications.

Stacey resides in Pennsylvania with her husband and children. She blogs about literacy and parenting at Raising a Literate Human and tweets @sshubitz.