Christy Leigh Stewart
My name is Christy Leigh Stewart and I was born March 4th, 1985 in French Camp, California. I am an only child and was raised gender-neutrally by a stay-at-home father and working mother.
As an adolescent I did some pro bono (and slightly exploitative) work for charity but it ended after one conference and two TV spots. I was uncooperative, to say the least, due to my aversion to lying and should not have made it that long. I, thankfully, stayed away from any extracurricular activities until my early teens when I spent four years in the a presidency group of my local church. I cooperated in this but it left my superiors wishing I hadn’t.
My time and energy in my late teens and early twenties went into a website I created with my good friend, Megan Hansen. The site was more infamous than famous because of the irreverence and combativeness of our members (which we encouraged) and that somehow led into our Youtube page being one of the most popular, resulting in my being interviewed about it by the Wall Street Journal. The novelty of it all wore off within hours for me and the site was unceremoniously deleted soon there after.
At this point I was out of school, work, and hobbies when one night I was out to dinner with Megan, who had since begun her career as an artist and illustrator, and we decided to make a book together. I went home and rushed to finish a half written story I had that became the book Familiar Scars. The project was so fun that we then published Satan Is The New Cupid which was a list of traditions and spells I had made for some friends. Good (yet critical of the unedited state of the book) reviews for Familiar Scars appeared and so Megan and I decided to put together Loath Letters. Before printing it (unedited, as was tradition) I had an Ambien-inspired revelation to PM every author I had friended on Goodreads.com to ask for a blurb. I hadn’t expected anyone to reply, let alone agree, but lots of really talented people did and I even found a brilliant editor, Lisette Brodey, to make all three of my books readable.
What I am doing now isn’t clear.