Synopses & Reviews
Review
"In
Margot, Kevin Stewart writes clear, beautiful prose and tells one hell of a tale, an old-fashioned love story full of new-fashioned weirdness, including an elk herd transplanted to Arkansas, land mines, and crystal meth labs in the Ozarks. This spare, compelling novella does everything it sets out to do and more, becoming, in the end, a heart-breaking and contemporary western of epic proportions. Kevin Stewart is a writer to watch." --Tom Franklin
Review
"Kevin Stewart has given us a Buffalo River country of pristine beauty-wooded hills, secret valleys, bright water, mating elk. But he gives us the human country too - desperate love, betrayed friendship, booby-trapped methamphetamine labs, cold-blooded murder. It's a mystery, of course, but it does what the best of them do: it creates and solves the surface, who-done-it mysteries (this is a shrewdly plotted story) while deepening the essential human mysteries of love and meaning. Best of all, it's a terrific read." --Skip Hays
About the Author
KEVIN STEWART is a native of Princeton, WV, and a graduate of the University of Arkansas' MFA Programs in Creative Writing. He also holds degrees in English from Radford University, VA, and Concord College, WV, and degrees in Architectural and Civil Engineering from Bluefield State College, WV. After several years of working in architecture, engineering, and auto upholstery and serving as an adjunct instructor, he's a full-time instructor of writing and literature at Louisiana State University. Recently, he won Kestrel's 1999 Short Story Contest and Now and Then's 1999 Appalachian Fiction Competition, along with the 1997 Elizabeth Simpson, Smith Fiction Award for North and South Carolina Writers, a 1997 South Carolina Academy of Authors Fellowship for Fiction, and a 1992 West Virginia Commission on the Arts and Humanities Award for Literature. His fiction has appeared in The Antietam Review, The Distillery: Artistic Spirits of the South, Kestrel: A Journal of Art and Literature, Now and Then, Wind Magazine, and several other journals.