Stewart was born and raised in Johannesburg, went to school in Israel and lived in The Netherlands for 19 years. He self-published his debut novel, The Goat Herder (Lulu Inc./Dec 2010). His short story, Be My Guest, was published in The Arlington Journal, Issue 49, on 6 December 2011. Excerpts of The Goat Herder will appear in The Kalahari Review in May 2012. He earned a Master's degree in Linguistics and Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg where he also received the Julius Robinson Scholarship for Literature and a Certificate of Merit. Stewart now resides in Cape Town, South Africa.