LEAH STEWART is the author of six novels: Body of a Girl, The Myth of You and Me, Husband & Wife, The History of Us, The New Neighbor, and What You Don’t Know About Charlie Outlaw. Her other accomplishments include an NEA Literature Fellowship, awards for promoting literature in Cincinnati and Ohio, and chairing her English department. The daughter of an elementary school teacher and an Air Force officer, she grew up in two countries and multiple states and received her BA from Vanderbilt and her MFA from the University of Michigan. Before becoming a professor at the University of Cincinnati, where she teaches in the undergraduate major and the Creative Writing PhD program, she worked as a cataloguer in a used bookstore, a literary magazine editor, a freelance copyeditor, and a visiting professor. She served as staff at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference from 1995 to 2004 and returned to the conference in 2019 as its director.

OTHER WRITING

The Mystery of Character \ The Life Sentence
First and Foremost, a Mom?  \  The New York Times : Motherlode
An Ode to Sewanee  \  Musing Lit Journal
Leah Stewart on Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood  \  Norm Blog
Castaways  \  Five Chapters