Tony Stewart

Tony Stewart is a Certified Grief Educator and author of the award-winning memoir Carrying the Tiger: Living with Cancer, Dying with Grace, Finding Joy while Grieving.

Tony has made award-winning films for colleges a universities, written software that received rave reviews in The New York Times and the New York Daily News, designed a grants-management application that was used by three of the five largest charities in the world, and led the development of an international standard for the messages involved in buying and selling advertisements for which he spoke at conferences across Europe and North America.

Carrying the Tiger won two Gold Medals at the 2025 Global Book Awards, is a Publishers Weekly Editor's Pick, was a Finalist for the AmericanBookFest Best Book Award and the Indie Authors Project best memoir award, and a Semi-Finalist for the BookLife prize.

Tony and his late wife Lynn Kotula, a painter, traveled extensively in India and Southeast Asia, staying in small hotels off the beaten track and eating delicious food with their fingers when cutlery wasn’t available.

Tony has shared his story on dozens of podcasts on subjects ranging from caregiving and grief to writing a good memoir. (See the complete list here.)