How One Woman’s Journey Through Loss and Wine Reveals the Ultimate Path to Reinvention

How One Woman's Journey Through Loss and Wine Reveals the Ultimate Path to Reinvention

In her debut memoir, Uncorked: A Memoir of Letting Go and Starting Over (Sibylline Press; Aug 2025), Stephens, a television writer-producer and MFA in creative writing recipient, shares her deeply personal story of embarking on the path to sobriety, transitioning from Fun Mary to Sober Mary.

The narrative begins with a prologue taking readers to a hospital in Dublin, Ireland in 1988, when Stephens is 23 years old. She is studying abroad, and one night she endures a frightening and debilitating accident landing her in the ER for months. This scene is significant, because it permanently alters the course — and quality — of her life, and possibly becomes the catalyst to her decades-long alcoholism.

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