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

 


References

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                                                               

 

Mark Jarman                                                            

Department of English                                             

Vanderbilt University                                                

Nashville, TN 37235                                                

(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