Stephanie Wallcraft

Stephanie Wallcraft

Stephanie Wallcraft is a full-time professional freelance writer and content creator based in Toronto. Her areas of automotive expertise include new vehicle reviews, consumer information and purchasing advice, family-friendly transportation, motorsport, and road trip travel. Stephanie has been a contributor to Driving.ca since 2019.

Summary

Stephanie has more than 10 years of freelance automotive writing experience with bylines in major Canadian and U.S.-based publications. She has expertise in new vehicle reviews, consumer information and purchasing advice, family-friendly transportation, motorsport, and road trip travel. She served for six years on the Board of Directors for the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada, including as the first woman to hold the role of President (2019-2022).

Education

Stephanie graduated from high school at Turner Fenton Campus in Brampton, and from Seneca College with a diploma in Radio and Television Broadcasting. The latter included focused training in broadcast journalism. But the education that led her into a career in automotive journalism started as a young girl in the grandstands of the Honda Indy Toronto and continued in the press rooms of the NTT IndyCar Series and Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.

Experience

When deciding to attend Seneca College for training in broadcasting, Stephanie had a singular goal: to graduate and get a job as a motorsport pit reporter. What she failed to calculate into her plans was that there was precisely one pit reporting job in all of Canada at the time, and it was a part-time gig at best.

Upon realizing that ambition wasn’t in the cards, she spent roughly 15 years working traditional office jobs, 12 of which were with major law firms in downtown Toronto. This valuable period of her career taught her the importance of precision in the written word and diplomacy in the workplace.

Her passion for fast machines on four wheels never wavered, and over time she began writing and podcasting on the side for a website she co-owned focused on IndyCar racing. She became a regular on the circuit, self-funding her way to eight to ten races per year and delivering to-the-minute coverage on her website as well as the platform formerly known as Twitter.

This is how she captured the attention of Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame inductee Norris McDonald, who offered her an opportunity to place her byline in one of Canada’s premier automotive newspaper sections. She left her office job six months later and hasn’t looked back.

In addition to Driving.ca, Stephanie’s automotive-related work has appeared in the Wheels section of the Toronto Star, CarGurus Canada, AutoTrader.ca, lifestyle magazines such as NUVO, MONTECRISTO, SHARP, and Corporate Knights, industry publications including Supply Professional magazine and Automotive News Canada, and elsewhere. Stephanie also owns and operates RoadTripper.ca, a website dedicated to Canadian road trip travel.

Major Awards Won by the Author

Winner: 2025 AJAC Adventure and Travel Journalism Award
Winner: 2025 AJAC Road Safety Journalism Award
Winner: 2025 AJAC Automotive Business Journalism Award
Runner-up: 2025 AJAC Automotive Journalism Award for Vehicle Testing
Winner: 2024 AJAC Canadian Automotive Journalist of the Year
Winner: 2024 AJAC Automotive Business Journalism Award
Winner: 2024 AJAC Automotive Journalism Award for Technical Topics
Runner-up: 2024 AJAC Road Safety Journalism Award
Runner-up: 2024 AJAC Feature Writing Award
Winner: 2023 AJAC Feature Writing Award
Runner-up: 2022 AJAC Jaguar Land Rover Canada Journalist of the Year
Winner: 2022 AJAC Adventure and Travel Journalism Award
Winner: 2022 AJAC Road Safety Journalism Award
Runner-up: 2022 AJAC Automotive Business Journalism Award
Runner-up: 2021 AJAC Adventure and Travel Journalism Award
Winner: 2020 AJAC Julie Wilkinson Motorsport Journalism Award
Winner: 2019 AJAC Julie Wilkinson Motorsport Journalism Award
Winner: 2017 AJAC Environmental Journalism Award
Winner: 2017 AJAC Road Safety Journalism Award
Winner: 2015 AJAC Feature Writing Award

Contact Info

Email: stephaniewallcraft@gmail.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephaniewallcraft