Stephanie Grant Millham grew up in the famed Virginia horse country riding hunters and event horses before specializing in dressage in the 1970's. While working as an assistant editor for The Chronicle of the Horse she conducted a series of interviews with Nuno Oliveira and continued writing articles about the Master's work during the ten years she studied with him as one of his students, training her own horses to Grand Prix and beyond. She was the original editor of the Horse of Kings magazine and is a founding board member of the Foundation for Classical Horsemanship. She has been teaching classical dressage at her farm in Virginia since 1983.