HENRY STEWART

Henry Stewart is a journalist and historian. He is the author and editor of the books The Streets of Brooklyn, How Bay Ridge Became Bay Ridge, True Crime Bay Ridge and More True Crime Bay Ridge. He also edited a new edition of Harlan Halsey's novel Old Sleuth, the Detective and translated Émile Verhaeren's The Sunlit Hours. He was previously the deputy editor at Opera News magazine and the culture editor at Northside Media, publisher of The L Magazine, BAMbill and more.

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His writing has also appeared on Gothamist, Lit Hub, Crime Reads, Electric Literature, Slant Magazine, BKLYNR, Hey Ridge, The Indypendent, Reverse Shot, The House Next Door and Bushwick Daily, as well as in Brooklyn Magazine and The Brooklyn Eagle.

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He hosted a long-running monthly open-mic reading series, has moderated Q&As with major actors and minor filmmakers, and has lectured and read at the Franklin Park Reading Series, Greenlight Bookstore’s Brooklyn Voices series at St. Joseph’s College, the Brooklyn Public Library, the Bay Ridge Historical Society, the Valley Stream Historical Society, Barrow's Intense distillery and the Owl’s Head wine bar.

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He graduated from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, where he has always lived.