Steve Stuebner is an Idaho author and public relations professional. Visit Steve’s PR/Marketing page for more information about his professional services.
Steve is Board Chair of the nonprofit Valley County Pathways, a trails advocacy organization based in McCall, and he serves on the board of the Idaho Foundation for Parks and Lands.
Steve has written more than 10 books over the last 30 years. His outdoor recreation guides were the go-to source of information for hiking, mountain biking and paddling back in the day before everything went online. Paddling the Payette is his only guidebook still in print. The data bases from his other outdoor guides have been sold.
Steve has a journalism and history degree from the University of Montana. He worked for the La Grande Observer in Oregon, the Colorado Springs Sun in Colorado and the Idaho Statesman before setting up his own professional freelance writing business in the early 1990s. For a decade, Steve worked under his own shingle as a professional writer, PR consultant and book publisher. During this time, Steve wrote for a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Outside, National Wildlife, The Intelligence Report, Columbia Journalism Review and High Country News.
Steve is the father of two boys, Quinn and Drew. They were raised in Boise and McCall with Steve’s life partner Wendy Wilson, along with Wendy’s two children, Tom and Elena. Our kids are in their 20s and 30s now … not to date Steve and Wendy in the least!