Kevin Stewart
Biographical Information
Kevin Stewart, winner of the 1999 Texas Review Novella Prize, is a native of Princeton, WV. His educational background is quite varied - he has degrees in English from Concord College and Radford University and in Architecture and Civil Engineering from Bluefield State. Currently a full-time instructor of writing and literature at Louisiana State University, Kevin Stewart spent several years working in architecture, engineering, and in auto upholstery to support his writing, as well as serving as an adjunct instructor at several higher education institutions. His fiction appeared in various publications, including The Antietam Review, The Distillery: Artistic Spirits of the South, and Kestrel: A Journal of Art and Literature.Kevin Stewart can be contacted at the following address:
Kevin Stewart
Instructor
305 Allen Hall
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
WVKCS@gateway.net
Critical Responses
Kevin Stewart had gained respect and recognition for his writing even before the publication of his first novella, Margot, earned him the 1999 Texas Review Novella Prize. He won the 1997 Elizabeth Simpson Smith Fiction Award for North and South Carolina Writers. Later he would win Now and Then's 1999 Appalachian Fiction Contest and Kestrel's 1999 Short Story Contest. Earlier he had received a 1997 South Carolina Academy of Authors Fellowship for Fiction (1997) and a West Virginia Commission on the Arts and Humanities Award for Literature (1992).Margot, his prize-winning novella, also garnered praise from critics. Ray Clayton commented "Kevin Stewart captures both the passions of the city and the primitiveness of rural America as they collide in a juxtaposed tale of romance and violence." It a painful collision, but one that nearly all people, no matter what their lifestyle or background, can identify with.
Works Published
Margot
Selected Bibliography
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Author Website
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