Shay Alexi Stewart-Willis

is a writer, storyteller, and creative communications specialist who lives in Atlanta, GA.

They are the author of unbridled and Diary of a Ghost Girl. Shay has been nominated for Georgia Author of the Year and featured by publications like WUSSY magazine and Apogee Journal. Learn more here.

Shay is earning a master’s degree in Strategic Communications from Agnes Scott College. They use their interdisciplinary communications skills to tell the stories of mission-driven people and organizations. Shay is the Director of Communications for the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta. Learn more here. 

They use language, illustration, and performance to craft narratives. Shay holds a BFA in Acting and videos of their performance poetry have garnered over 5 million views. Their graphic design has been featured by publications like The Rumpus and utilized in social media campaigns, logos, and book covers.

These intertwined pursuits articulate Shay’s focused curiosities: narrative power in justice-making, precise language, and the poetics of design.