Writer & Editor

Sean Theodore Stewart (he/him) is a writer from the Sandhills of Nebraska. His fiction has appeared in The Arkansas International, Epiphany, Barrelhouse, december, Salt Hill, The New Territory, Guesthouse, Bayou Magazine, The Normal School, Full House Literary, and TIMBER. A piece of his nonfiction will be anthologized in the forthcoming book Middle Ground: Personal Stories about the Places of Midwestern Literature.

He is a Best American Short Stories 2024 and Pushcart Prize nominee. His collection of interconnected short stories ‘Plain Gods’ was selected as a finalist for Iron Horse Literary Review and Texas Tech University Press’s 2023 First Book Prize. The Arkansas International selected one of his short stories as a finalist for the 2019 Emerging Writer's Prize and Driftwood Press selected another as a finalist in their Short Story Contest.

Sean holds an MFA from the University of Idaho, where he served as Fiction Editor of Fugue and was named the 2020-2021 Hemingway Fellow.

Outside of writing, Sean loves studying cookbooks and history. He now lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Samantha, and their pups, Ramona and Molly.