Loren Steffy's novel The Big Empty was released in paperback in 2023. It combines a sweeping appreciation for history and the struggles of small-town America with an examination of technology and the social and economic changes that come about when the two meet head-to-head. The hardcover edition won a Silver Medal for Best New Fiction Book in the Independent Book Publishers Association's annual Ben Franklin awards.

In 2020, Steffy founded Stoney Creek Publishing Group, an independent publisher that focuses on stories and narratives from unique voices. Since its inception, Stoney Creek has published some 40 titles, many of them award winners and best sellers.

Steffy wrote and produced the six-episode narrative podcast Putin's Oil Heist, and was co-host of two award winning podcasts: The Trial of the Century in 2021 and The Big Empty and Economic Issues Facing 21st Century Texas in 2022.

He is also a writer-at-large for Texas Monthly and a managing director for the communications firm 30 Point Strategies, where he heads the 30 Point Press publishing imprint.

Steffy was the business columnist for the Houston Chronicle for nine years and his writing has appeared in newspapers and other publications nationwide.

Before joining the Chronicle, Steffy was the Dallas bureau chief and a senior writer for Bloomberg News, where he covered a variety of business topics in Texas and across the country, including the collapse of Enron. His reporting on the demise of Arthur Andersen was selected for the 2003 edition of the Best Business Stories of the Year. Before joining Bloomberg, Steffy worked at the Dallas Times Herald, the Dallas Business Journal and the Arlington Daily News.

Steffy holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Texas A&M University. If he's not writing or reading, he's probably working on cars or puttering (yes, he has reached the age of puttering) around his property in Wimberley, where he lives with his wife, Laura, and two rescue dogs.