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() is an award-winning author, accredited public relations professional, and former reporter with a master’s degree in journalism who works full-time in marketing at Nationwide. Stollar’s debut novel, , won Grand Prize in the 2016 Writer’s Digest Self-Published, placed as a Top 25 Finalist in the 2020 Launch Pad Manuscript Competition and is currently being pitched to publishers by senior agent Paula Munier of Talcott Notch Literary.

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