Stacy Wakefield studied graphic design at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, where she graduated with a specialization in book design in 1994. With her sister she founded Evil Twin Publications, which released Not for Rent: Conversations with Creative Activists in the U.K., a collection of interviews with squatters, which Wakefield coauthored. She is also the author of the coming-of-age novel The Sunshine Crust Baking Factory (Akashic Books, 2015). Wakefield lives in the Catskill Mountains.