Review of Becoming Emily Novak in Queer on the Street, January 2023
"[A] heartwrenching coming-of-age story with themes of love and loss; there was not a chapter where I did not shed a tear or two." MORE
Review of Do Over, Readers' Favorite, November 2022
"[A] story for everyone who has ever asked 'where do stories come from?'...[T]he adventure is unexpected, illogical, and silly...The point is to have fun...This is not a bedtime story. Instead, it will help the reader wake up and think playful thoughts." MORE
Review of The Day My Best Friend and a Migraine Slept Over, The Migraine Trust, November 2022
"[A] great introduction to migraine for children and also informative to adults. It neatly describes what it is like to have a migraine attack, both physically and mentally, and shows children that they are not alone in living with the condition." MORE
Review of The Day My Best Friend and a Migraine Slept Over, Kirkus Reviews, August 2022
"Stein's picture book captures the complicated feelings that can come along with chronic illness." MORE
Review of Look at Me, Readers' Favorite, February 2022
"Look at Me is a fun yet informative story. [A] great example of how to break these chains that tell us who or what we should be based on gender... written in a way that is easy for children to comprehend... I love the overall message which is that each child is unique in their own way and they don't have to conform to gender roles." MORE
Review of Bear and Dragon Cat, Indies Today, July 2021
"There are some books that you would never leave your child alone with for fear that they might mar the pages with a marker or accidentally tear a page. This is definitely not one of those books... Bear and Dragon Cat inspires imagination by encouraging children to enhance the story with their crayons and add to it with their own creativity." MORE
Interview in The Daily Pennsylvanian, October 27, 2010
"Success is about getting the words right, it's about sharing a story with someone who needs to hear it." MORE
Review of Map on AfterEllen.com, September 2010
"a sweet and smart book" MORE
"Artist in the Office" Interview, August 2010
"The most important way my jobs have helped me creatively is by providing stability and structure. And by that I mean a steady paycheck, a place to go each day, and people to interact with, as well as a respite from the demand to be creative. I've experimented with a lot of different ways of writing, and there are definitely times on each project when I need immersion, but for the most part I find I am just as productive when I have a full-time job as when I don't." MORE and the INTRODUCTION where I am described by Summer Pierre as "one of the most PROFESSIONAL and DRIVEN writers I've ever known."
Map was Book of the Month on yaReads.com, June 2010
"refreshing, and a joy to read" MORE of the REVIEW and an INTERVIEW
Q&A in Curve Magazine, June 2010
"At a certain point your memory fails. You can't remember exact conversations. You forget what someone was wearing or whether this event came before that. Overall, I tried to stay true to the records I had, and to my memory, as well as to the emotional truth." MORE
Review of Map on Examiner.com and Lambda Literary, April 2010
"delightfully original and fun to read" MORE
Interview and Review of Map in Bi Women, Spring 2010
"[V]ery relevant...Map is a journey. Stein uses the map metaphor to show us the lay of the land as she has seen it. Her style of prose is, at times, lyrical. Told in first person, it has a stream of consciousness feel, letting the reader in on Audrey’s disjointed, disquieted thoughts about her parents and former romantic partners. Then, gradually, order comes to the internal monologue—decisiveness, definitive action. The sentence structure becomes more complete, even as questions remain. But no longer are these particularly questions of identity...The questions have to do more with her place in her community, her goals, her family, and her resolve about her writing...[E]xtremely readable." MORE
Interview and Review of Map in JVibe, December 2009
"This memoir touched my heart, opened my mind and broadened my perspective." MORE
Review of Map on Three Good Rats blog, November 2009
"There is all the angst you would expect, and a level of melodrama that will remind you, painfully, of your first relationship. But it's also surprisingly humorous, and a couple of times I actually laughed out loud." MORE
Featured in story/interview, "Getting the Words Out: Taking a look at The Writers' Room: Boston's urban writers' colony," Bookbound, Boston University, vol.1 no.1, Spring 2002
"As a community of writers, The Writers' Room has produced influential work on a local, national, and international level. No matter what their reasons for joining—quiet time, intellectual community, even air conditioning—the Room's members form a literary community in a single place....[Audrey Beth Stein's] novel, which began as a short story called "On the Eighth Day," was sketched out with stream-of-consciousness writing over the summer—when she joined the Writers' Room—and has been being shaped ever since."
Hear Me Out featured in article, "Speaking for the records," Waterbury Republican-American, October 27, 2001
"Hear Me Out is a CD with three stories that examine, through Stein's eyes, the struggle to understand relationships and sexuality and how her Jewish faith figures into and influences all of it.Stein put the tales on CD because 'I'm just really interested in the way stories come across when they're read.' The relatively inexpensive cost of producing a CD made the job doable so she could find out, on a small scale, whether people like listening to stories rather than reading them."
Review of Hear Me Out, MzVibe.com, September 2001
"Stein's writing style is cutting in its honesty. The relationships she uncovers support her clear-cut view on life...her words are easy to comprehend and the stories are easy to relate to. [A]n accomplished writer."
Feature story/interview, "Stein's writing career receives big boost," Chavurah, August 2000
"The first time Audrey Beth Stein had her writing published, it was on the Kid's Page of Chavurah.It's a long way from the Kid's Page to winning a prestigious national award, but that's exactly what Stein has done. She recently won first prize in the David Dornstein Memorial Short Story Contest for Young Adult Writers sponsored by the Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education (CAJE). Her winning entry, "The Terrorist Game," will be published in an upcoming issue of the Jewish Education News..."