STEWART LINDH

Writer's Mentor

Education

Doctorat de 3ème Cycle, École des Hautes Études, Paris, France.  Highest honors.
Research director: Roland Barthes.

M.F.A., Writing Division, School of the Arts, Columbia University.  Honors.
Thesis director: Mark Strand.

B.A. Reed College, Portland, Oregon, Honors.

French Certificate, Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California

Sailors Union of the Pacific, San Francisco, California

United States Marine Corps. (Honorable Discharge).

Teaching Experience

Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière (CILECT)  Noisy-le-Grand, France
Lecturer in advanced screenwriting.

W.I.C.E. Institute, Paris, France
Initiated and led creative writing workshop, Concept to Completion.

Paris American Academy, Paris France
Taught short-form, non-fiction, and screenwriting workshops to undergraduate students and adults in successive intensive summer writing programs.

American University of Paris, Paris, France
Taught fiction and non-fiction writing to graduate students and professional writers.

California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
Instructed poetry, fiction and screenwriting to undergraduate and MFA students.

Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, California
Taught English literature, and composition.

Marlborough School, Los Angeles, California
Taught English literature and composition, K through 12.

Special Security School, Taif, Saudi Arabia
Taught ESL.

Publications

Shipwrecks and Other Drownings, a novel, published 2007.

Heart Quests, an interactive novel, published 2007.

Poetry and prose in Shenandoah, Poetry, Paris Voices, New American Review, Gargoyle, Cargo, Blind Date,  Ophir, and Lines. 

Reviews and articles in the Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle.

Prose pieces in the following art exhibits: Blind Date, Song Poems, and Ab Ova. 

Ghostwriter, Guarded Moments, a novel

Poetry translations from French in L'Amour Bleu

Creator of the novelty invention: The Writer’s Block.

Feature Screenplays

Blind Side shown on HBO and general theater release.

The Theory of Sand in development with Locus Solus Productions.

The Sea House – prize winner Hawaii International Film Festival.