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Voice & Vision in the Media
Grief has a branding problem. Ron Stempkowski is working on it.
He is the author of The Luck We Carry: Love, Loss, and the Stories That Shape Us, a memoir-in-essays with a foreword by grief therapist and bestselling author Claire Bidwell Smith, and a grief coach who writes and speaks about a simple idea: we don't move on from the people we love—we move with them.
Bios, headshots, book details, and interview topics are below. For anything else, get in touch.

Selected Press & Coverage
voyage dallas
Meet Ron Stempkowski of Chicago
August 5, 2026
the locher Room
Grief Memoir Author Ron Stempkowski
March 12, 2026
The Writer's Collective
Ron Stempkowski on the Art of the Personal Essay
August 15, 2025
Chicago Arts Radio
Memoirs of Memory: A Conversation with Ron
July 02, 2025
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