Mary Alice Stewart is a writer, editor, and a literary agent at Enliven. She holds an MFA and a BA from Bennington College and is currently a student at Central Maine Community College in their Electromechanical Technology program where she also teaches writing to students heading into the trades. Mary Alice has lectured/consulted for Tin House, The Shipman Agency’s Work Room, North Carolina Writers’ Network, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, Caricon: A Celebration of Caribbean Literature, Chelsea Hodson’s Morning Writers’ Club, and more. She has attended The John Ashbery Home School and the Disquiet workshop in Lisbon, Portugal, and received a residency with Virginia Center for Creative Arts. As a private editor, her clients have gone on to publish with premier publishing houses. Her writing has appeared in Forever Mag, Rose Books’ inaugural anthology Primal Scream, Joyland, No Tokens, and elsewhere. An essay of hers has been translated into Italian for Edizioni Black Coffee's website. Mary Alice is from, and lives in, Maine.