Leah Stewart
My study is in the smaller of two rooms on the third floor of our house in Cincinnati, in a converted attic. The stairs are steep and it has no climate control, so when I go up there I feel like I’m going somewhere apart from the house, where even the temperature is different and sometimes you bump your head on the ceiling. We furnished it with a couple trips to IKEA. I wanted to fit as many bookcases as possible and also be able to look out the window. Thus this arrangement, which my husband says makes it look like I’m the attic receptionist. My kids have an easel in the corner—that artwork is courtesy of my three year old. The old typewriter on the desk belonged to a great-great aunt named Blanche. My desk is almost always this messy. Not noticing the mess is a sign the work’s going well.
Leah Stewart is the author of three novels, Body of a Girl, The Myth of You and Me, and Husband and Wife. She teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Cincinnati, and maintains an equally cluttered desk in her office at school.
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