Jerome with Dan Fogelberg jacket, 4/2008
Jerome Stueart writes fiction, memoir and science fiction. He’s been published in journals, magazines, newspapers and on the radio, and his science fiction has been included in three Canadian anthologies, Tesseracts 9 and 11, and the 14. Tess Nine included his short story “Lemmings in the Third Year” which was honorably mentioned for the Fountain Award. He authored and drew the comic strip, Captain Bly, and he and his father pooled resources and published a collection of the strips. His memoir radio series, “Adopting My Mother” was heard across Canada in 2002, and the radio series, “Leaving America” aired June 2-10, 2008 on CBC Yukon, reran in August, and was then broadcast across Canada. His series, “Yukon 2058,” was broadcast on CBC North in early December, 2008. He is currently a freelance writer for Yukon: North of Ordinary, and What’s Up Yukon? where you can read his theatre column, Stages. He teaches creative writing classes, sometimes, at Yukon College and through the City of Whitehorse programming.
In both 2003 and 2008, Jerome was a featured writer with the Young Authors Conference and Yukon Writers Festival held in Whitehorse. He helps out with the festival now as Emcee.
Jerome has helped promote two science fiction/fantasy writing workshops in the Yukon—YukonSpec for adults and Rocketfuel for teens, and has taught cartooning to kids through City programming and through the schools. He’s a 2007 graduate of Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing Workshop in San Diego.
Jerome earned a degree in History, English and Theatre, a Masters degree in Creative Writing, and finally a PhD in English at Texas Tech University in 2005. He came up to the Yukon on a Fulbright Fellowship in 2001 to study northern science, where he kind of fell for Whitehorse. He decided to immigrate to Canada, and finished the three year process in 2007. In the summer of 2007, Stueart traveled 4000 miles overland, stopping at interesting places along the way out of America, interviewing folks about Canada, immigration and science fiction, and now lives in a small apartment in Whitehorse, YT–land of Moose and snow. He’s lived here as a landed immigrant for three years. As a Yukoner, he’s worked for Nakai Theatre, the Yukon Bureau of Statistics, and the Arctic Institute of North America, and currently teaches for Yukon College and the City of Whitehorse. In the summer he is a trolley conductor, and a vaudevillian for the Frantic Follies.
–Thanks for coming to my blog. Hope it’s informative and entertaining. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me at jstueart@yahoo.com
Hi Jerome:
I interviewed you the last time you were tapped for the Young Authors’ Conference, and here we are again. My task for the conference is to prepare promo pieces on all the writers, to appear in the Star the week before and of the conference. Would you have time for a telephone interview later this week and where could I reach you to do this?
Dan Davidson
I was actually in one of your writing workshops for the Young Author’s Conference in 2003, when I was still stuck in F.H. Collins. It’s been a while, but I finally got my first short story published in On Spec magazine (and can thus add my name to the list of Yukon speculative fiction writers whose work has ended up there). Who knows what those two days might have had to do with it.
Regards,
Michal Wojcik
Excellent!! Good for you, Michal. I’ll google ya. Good to know that the YAC helps a bit, and that other Yukon writers are out there.
Your writing is excellent – a rare talent.
And forgive me for saying so, but you remind me a lot of someone we both seem to know. It’s the area around the eyes. I can’t believe no one told you that yet.
Well… just let me say, he had a charming smile, your father had.
Get in touch if you like.
Best Wishes
Anita
Well first of all Jerome…I would like to say that you not only write but sing very well…secondly I like the Fogelberg jacket as well…Dan has always meant a lot to me
Finally, I am here to ask for a favor; I saw your delightful arial view overlooking Bennett Lake in ‘Whats Up Yukon’ February 11 this year….and was wondering I could conceivably obtain a clearer copy of that or if you have some more like that one. I would love to have it in my personal collection because that lake has special meaning to me. I have flown over the lake a couple times but never captured it on film like you have. And you had such beautiful weather.
Hey Jerome! We share a publisher. And an interest in the Clarion blog. I remember reading “Lemmings in the Third Year”! It stood out.