Curriculum Vitae
Leah Stewart
4217 Dairyland
Road
Hillsborough, NC
27278
(919) 932-4642
leahandmatt@mindspring.com
Education
University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
Michigan (1996)
Master of Fine
Arts, Fiction
Vanderbilt
University, Nashville,
Tennessee (1994)
Bachelor of
Arts, English
Teaching
Experience
Murray
State University, Murray,
Kentucky
Visiting
Mentor, Low-Residency MFA Program (2005– )
Graduate Residency in Fiction (English 665)
Graduate Fiction Tutorial (English 661)
University
of the South, Sewanee,
Tennessee
Tennessee
Williams Fellow (2003–04)
Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction (English 420A)
Creative Writing: Fiction (English 410A)
Vanderbilt
University, Nashville,
Tennessee
Visiting
Assistant Professor (2001–02)
Beginning Fiction Writing (English 122)
Intermediate Fiction Writing (English 204)
Advanced Fiction Writing (English 205)
Sewanee
Young Writers’ Conference,
Sewanee, Tennessee
Instructor
(2000–04)
Fiction Writing
The
Wang Center, Boston,
Massachusetts
Writers-in-Residence
Mentor (1997)
Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction Writing
Teaching Experience, cont.
University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
Michigan
Graduate
Student Instructor (1995–96)
Introduction to Creative Writing (Fiction and Poetry)
Related
Experience
Staff of Sewanee
Writers’
Conference, Sewanee, Tennessee (1995–2004)
Associate Editor
of DoubleTake magazine,
Durham, North Carolina (1999)
Honors
Sir Walter
Raleigh Award for
Fiction, 2000 (NC)
Mary Ruffin
Poole Award for
First Fiction, 2000 (NC)
Conferences
Panelist for
Southern
Festival of Books (2005)
Panelist for
University of
Michigan MFA 20th Anniversary (2002)
Panelist for
Virginia
Festival of the Book (2001)
Books
The
Myth of You and Me, Shaye Areheart
Books, 2005
Random
House Audio, 2005
Thorndike Press (large print), 2006
Random House Australia, 2006
Goldmann Verlog
(Germany), forthcoming
Edizioni Piemme
(Italy), forthcoming
A.W. Bruna
(Holland), forthcoming
Body
of a Girl, Viking/Penguin,
2000/01
Piatkus
(UK), 2000
Egmont Hjemmets Bokforlag (Norway), 2001
Goldmann Verlog,
2001
Short
Fiction
“Body Image,” Yemassee, Fall
2003
“Lessons in
Lying” (with
Ellen Slezak), The Journal News,
August 2003
“Monopoly,” Kenyon Review, April 2000
Book
Reviews
Review of Lee
Martin’s The Bright Forever, News and
Observer (Raleigh, NC), 24 July 2005
Review of Mary Doria Russell’s A
Thread of Grace, News and Observer,
6 March 2005
Review of Pam
Houston’s Sight Hound, News and Observer,
30 January 2005
Review of Ron
Rash’s Saints at the River, News and
Observer, 8
August 2004
Elizabeth Grammer, Co-Director
Sewanee Young
Writers’
Conference
The University
of the South
Sewanee, TN 37383
(931) 598-1541
egrammer@sewanee.edu
John Grammer,
Ph.D.
Department of
English
The University
of the South
Sewanee, TN 37383
(931) 598-1483
jgrammer@sewanee.edu
(615) 322-2618
mark.f.jarman.2@Vanderbilt.Edu
Erin McGraw
Department of
English
Ohio State
University
Columbus, OH
43210
(614) 292-2061
mcgraw.46@osu.edu
Wyatt Prunty,
Ph.D.
Department of
English
The University
of the South
Sewanee, TN 37383
(931) 598-1159
wprunty@sewanee.edu
George Hovis,
Ph.D.
Department of
English
Murray State
University
Murray, KY 42071
(270) 762-4723
george.hovis@murraystate.edu