Bio

Jaime Alexis Stathis has a mission as a writer: she wants to craft compelling, easy-to-digest copy that helps people live better lives. That’s it.

Jaime wears many hats as a writer. She is a freelance journalist, content strategist, writing coach, brainstormer and all-around creative writer. She’s been a contributor at The Washington Post, Qz, Huff Post, Business Insider, WIRED, Women’s Health, PARADE, Reader’s Digest and others, where her favorite thing is producing work that helps us live better lives. You can read more of her freelance journalism here.

She also writes about humans, wildlife, and the place where the two intersect. Jaime cut her journalistic teeth writing deep-dive investigations about grizzly bears. She admires these apex predators both for their iconic beauty and for acting as barometers for how far humans have come and the distance we’ve yet to go.

Jaime enjoys writing about people who behave and people who don’t. She especially loves writing about her grandmother, Mimi, who set the bar high for love and friendship.

Jaime is originally from Connecticut, but has lived all over the United States and a few times abroad. She has a thing for salt and sand, but is equally smitten by tall pines and clear water. After twenty years calling Missoula, Montana “home base,” Jaime (finally) pulled up her stakes in September, 2021 to travel and write. She drove from Montana to Maine to Florida to Cape Cod to Texas and back to the Northeast, where she settled in New York’s Hudson Valley and enjoyed exploring an area that felt both foreign and familiar.

As of 2024, Jaime now lives in Stowe, Vermont and she’s fairly certain she’s found heaven on earth. Will she stay? Stranger things have happened, but this gypsy spirit may have found a good spot to take root.

Jaime graduated with honors in Writing and Rhetoric from William Smith College and has taken graduate-level courses at the University of California, the University of Montana, and New York University. 

Jaime is seeking representation for SORRY I’M NOT WHO YOU THOUGHT I WAS, a novel about a heroine who saves herself. Here’s a snippet. She is working on a memoir called KEEPING about her grandmother, Mimi, whom Jaime took care of while Mimi navigated the middle stages of dementia. Jaime created a fake cooking show that helped Mimi stay rooted in the present, which was one place Mimi felt safe when her memory was slipping away. You can read more about that story here.