Penn Stewart is an award-winning writer who has published a novel, a short story collection, and has had his short stories, essays, and photographs published in print and online journals across the US, the UK, and Australia.

Penn Stewart is also the pen name for Dr. John Schulze, Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Midwestern State University in Texas. John has also taught creative writing at several institutions and in numerous community arts centers, including Western Illinois University, The Buchanan Art Center, and at the Hemingway- Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center in Piggott, Arkansas.

John earned his Bachelor’s from the University of New Orleans, his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Memphis, and his PhD in English from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.

He currently lives in Wichita Falls, Texas, with his beautiful wife Rajean, their two daughters, and a super fluffy Great Pyrenees named Anna.