Arthur Stewart is an ecologist, senior scientist, essayist and poet. He graduated from Agua Fria Union High School and Northern Arizona University (B.S. and M.S. degrees) before spending two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana. Upon returning to the U.S., he completed a Ph.D. in limnology at Michigan State University and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He taught aquatic ecology and conducted stream-ecology studies as an Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma for three years before returning to Oak Ridge National Laboratory to work as an aquatic ecologist and ecotoxicologist. He has authored or co-authored more than sixty articles and book chapters, and has served as editor or associate editor for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Journal of the North American Benthological Society, and Ecotoxicology. He is an Adjunct Research Professor at the University of Tennessee, and lives in Lenoir City.

Rough Ascension and Other Poems of Science, published by Celtic Cat Publishing, is his first book of poetry.