Jodi Lea Stewart

Jodi Lea Stewart is a fiction author who centers her themes around the triumph of overcoming adversity by grit, humor, or hard-rock tenacity. She grew up smelling cedar berries and cow pens on a large cattle ranch wedged between the Navajo Nation and the White Mountain Apache Tribe. Most of her friends were Native American and Hispanic, with a few Anglos thrown in for good measure. On the ranch, she climbed petroglyph-etched boulders, sang to chickens, bounced two feet in …