Stewart Fritz
- Teen Services Lead Librarian
- 269-553-7911 | Email
I grew up in Kalamazoo, and spent a fair amount of time at the library as a kid. I even played Dungeons and Dragons in the old "Young Adult" area in between chapters of Neuromancer. Yeah... I'm an old-school nerd.
After graduating from Loy Norrix High School, I went on to pick up a bachelor's degree in art from the University of Michigan. I worked for many years at a major video game company doing interface graphics for home console systems. I've also been a web designer, camp counselor, cook, and radio station disc jockey. I got my librarian degree in 2005 and started at KPL in 2006 in the Children's Room. I quickly was drafted to take over the monthly J-Pop animation club, and soon after found myself running other programs for Tweens and Teens. When the position opened up here in Teen, I decided to give it a shot since I was already familiar with the great staff and programming, and now here we are.
I'm a big fan of fantasy and science fiction books and films, and I really love graphic novels so you may find me rummaging through our stacks for the titles I haven't already read a hundred times. I can always be coaxed into a game of Guitar Hero, although my favorite game is Katamari Damacy. I'm an avid collector of music of all kinds, and I still draw and do printmaking in what little spare time I have left these days.