Steph WestSteph West is an award-winning writer and editor, and festival-accepted director and producer. She was a former Gannett/USA Today Network and Fox Sports Ohio reporter. She covered the NHL and Columbus Blue Jackets for five seasons and appeared on Blu Jackets Live as a special guest correspondent several times throughout her tenure. West has won multiple Society of Professional Journalists, Cleveland Press Club, and AP awards, including seven Ohio SPJ awards in 2021 for the creative team she led as Vice President of Content at 614 Media Group. She's also an Emmy-nominated (regional) film producer and director with two Silver Telly Award credits for her work leading the video portion of a veteran's project with the Columbus College of Art + Design. West won the 2025 gold medal in sports fiction from the North American Book Awards for her hockey novel The Third Period. In 2023 she won the WIFVNE Sports Screenplay Contest (first and second places) for Clean Break (football) and The Third Period (hockey), and the Firebird Book Award Competition for her debut memoir On Fire. Read More Read Less