Born in Kansas, raised in Indiana, a graduate of Indiana University, Stuart worked at the Eighth Street Bookshop in Greenwich Village, as a college rep for W.W. Norton, hitchhiked to India and Nepal and back for a year and a half, which he wrote about while doing graduate work at Rutgers; the book was Indian Action, published by Little Brown, which also published his novel, Rosamund’s Vision. He’s been writing about books and the arts for Town Topics since 2003; he’s published poetry, fiction, essays in Poetry, Partisan Review, Raritan, and the Village Voice.