Stella Bagwell is an American romance novelist. She worked as a hairdresser before selling her first manuscript to Silhouette in 1985, and has since written some ninety books for Harlequin and its imprints. She writes contemporary Western romance — ranching families, cowboys and small towns — much of it within the long-running Men of the West novels, and has contributed to several multi-author Harlequin sagas. She lives on the Texas Gulf coast with her husband, their horses and their cats.