Jennifer Fair Stewart

Jennifer Fair Stewart was born on April Fools’ Day, grew up running wild across midwestern acres, sojourned in cities, and now runs semi-respectably through southwestern desert suburbs. Turning fifty, she ran her first 5K race, a beer run in Texas, and summited the tallest peak in Colorado. She holds a BA from Grove City College and has been working as a teacher for over twenty years, in addition to stints as a sales clerk, house cleaner, library assistant, janitor, secretary, and retreat speaker. As a child, she won her elementary school’s competition for the Young Authors Conference twice and has been writing off and on ever since. Her poetry has won awards, including the 2024 Rhina Espaillat Award and has appeared or is forthcoming in Heart of Flesh, The Orchards Poetry Journal, Quiet Diamonds, Crescendo, Trampoline, Plough, and Bacopa Literary Review.