Gray Stewart has been teaching fiction writing in the Atlanta area since 1994 and joined the Morehouse faculty in 1996, where he teaches the Fiction Writing Workshop as well as World Literature and Composition for the Honor’s Program.  His fiction focuses on Atlanta and its environs throughout the 20th Century.  His current literary project is a satirical novel about race in the city following the 1996 Olympic Games.  A Hambidge Fellow, he is an active member in Atlanta’s thriving literary community.  Additional academic projects include a continuing study of oral storytelling in the Pueblos Negros of Oaxaca, Mexico, and a collaboration with faculty at Haskell Indian Nations University exploring the introduction of an indigenous worldview into the classroom to encourage an active environmental consciousness.

Education
M.A., Fine Arts in Creative Writing, Louisiana State University

B.A., Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia

Forthcoming publications
“GiantFood,” The Chattahoochee Review, Fall 2008.

(with Cindy Lutenbacher) “Taking the Pulse: Creative Writing Workshops at Morehouse College.”  The Writing Workshop Model: Is it Still Working? Ed. Dianne Donnelly.  Channel View Publications Ltd / Multilingual Matters, Bristol, UK, 2009.

Contact
Brawley Hall 222
ext. 3619
gstewart@morehouse.edu