Berni Stapleton is a Canadian writer residing in Newfoundland. Along with writing, Stapleton is also a performer and playwright. Her debut book, They Let Down Baskets, won the 1999 Newfoundland Book Award for Best Non-Fiction.
Stapleton was born in North West River and raised in Marystown. She was a playwright-in-residence with the Playwright's Workshop Montreal, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, PARC, as well as other national companies. She was also the Artistic Director of the Grand Bank Regional Theatre for eleven years. She has a production company called In Conjunction. In 2019, Stapleton was named Memorial University's writer-in-residence. She has also received a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to write Girly Muckle and the Queer Hands.
Her roles as an actress have included the films Violet, The Bingo Robbers and Behind the Red Door.