Stephanie Trong was the executive editor of the magazine
Jane, which had a circulation approaching one million until it shut down in July 2007.
She was born in
Norwich,
New York in 1976, as the daughter of a
Vietnamese American engineering executive and his wife, an
American woman of
European descent from
New Jersey. While still a child, Stephanie moved from New York State to
Texas with her parents. She later graduated from the
University of Texas in
Austin with a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1998.
She joined Jane Magazine in early 1999 as an editorial assistant and was later promoted to assistant editor, associate editor, senior editor, deputy editor and finally executive editor. She was second only to
Brandon Holley, the editor-in-chief of the magazine. After a stint at
Page Six The Magazine, Trong joined
Nylon Magazine in August 2008 as executive editor for both its
Nylon and
Nylon Guys publications.
On April 21, 2010; it was announced by
NBC New York that Stephanie Trong would soon join the rapidly expanding
Gilt Groupe as its first editorial director. On October 14, 2010, the
New York Observer published an article by Zeke Turner, revealing: "In other moves at Lucky ...Ms. Holley has also hired Stephanie Trong, her number two from the Jane years, as deputy editor."
Stephanie also appeared on the
SOAPnet series
The Fashionista Diaries.
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