Reinhardt's MFA Summer Reading Series: Gary Stewart

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Gray Stewart, June 25, 7:30-9 p.m., Hill Freeman Library & Spruill Learning Center 

Gray Stewart’s debut novel, “Haylow,” earned him the 53rd Annual Georgia Author of the Year Award in 2017. The story gives a snapshot of this history of the South, following Travis Hemperly and the discoveries he makes of his family’s past, along with his own challenges being a minority for the first time at his new job at a historically black college in Atlanta. The fiction novel explores the environs of Atlanta during the 20th century to show the ways the South has changed yet also stayed the same.  

Stewart studied Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia and earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Louisiana State University. From 2000-2010, Stewart taught a fiction workshop at Morehouse College.