Stewart Lawrence Sinclair is a writer, editor and writing instructor whose essays and narrative reportage has been featured in Guernica, The Millions, The New Orleans Review, The Morning News, 3:A.M., Creative Nonfiction’s “True Story” series, Full Grown People and elsewhere. He is the author of the books Juggling (Duke University Press, March ‘23) and Space Rover (Bloomsbury/The Atlantic, 2024). He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of 433, an independent journal of literature, art and commentary, and has taught creative writing workshops at The City College of New York.

Originally from Ventura, California, Stewart has lived across the United States, in New Mexico, Louisiana and New York. Along the way he’s supported himself and his writing through construction, the service industry, AmeriCorps, as a juggler in New Orleans, and briefly by scrubbing toilets in Maui, Hawaii. Stewart’s work has focused on class, belonging and the vagaries of upward mobility in America.

Stewart received an MFA in Creative Writing from The City College of New York and a Bachelor’s in English with a focus on Creative Writing from Loyola University in New Orleans. He also served as Fiction Editor and Editor-in-Chief for Revisions, the campus literary magazine, while also writing a regular opinion column for the Loyola Maroon. He currently lives in Harlem.