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  • Georgina Beaty

    Georgina Beaty

    Lecturer

    BioGeorgina is the author of the short story collection The Party is Here (Freehand Books, 2021). Her fiction has appeared in New England Review, The Walrus, The New Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, PRISM and elsewhere. As an actor and playwright, she’s worked with theatres across Canada and internationally. A 2020-2022 Stegner Fellow in fiction, she holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia, has been supported by fiction residencies at MacDowell, Jentel and The Banff Centre, and was a screenwriting resident at the Canadian Film Centre. She's currently a Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford University.

  • William Brewer

    William Brewer

    Lecturer

    BioWilliam Brewer's debut novel The Red Arrow was published by Knopf in 2022. His book of poems, I Know Your Kind, was a winner of the National Poetry Series. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, A Public Space, The Sewanee Review, and The Best American Poetry series. Formerly a Stegner Fellow, he is currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University.

  • Kai Carlson-Wee

    Kai Carlson-Wee

    Lecturer

    BioKai Carlson-Wee is the author of RAIL (BOA Editions, 2018). He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and his work has appeared in Ploughshares, Best New Poets, AGNI, New England Review, Gulf Coast, and The Missouri Review, which awarded him the 2013 Editor’s Prize. His photography has been featured in Narrative Magazine, and his poetry film, Riding the Highline, received the Jury Award at the 2015 Napa Valley Film Festival. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, he lives in San Francisco and is a lecturer at Stanford University.

  • Kate Folk

    Kate Folk

    Lecturer

    BioKate Folk is the author of a novel, Sky Daddy (Random House 2025), and a short story collection, Out There (Random House 2022). Her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, n+1, One Story, Granta, and The Baffler, among other venues. A 2019-2021 Stegner Fellow, she’s also received fellowships from MacDowell, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and Willapa Bay AiR. She is currently a lecturer in creative writing at Stanford University.

  • Emily Geminder

    Emily Geminder

    Lecturer

    BioEmily Geminder is the author of Dead Girls and Other Stories, winner of the Dzanc Books Short Story Prize. Her stories, poems, and essays have appeared in American Short Fiction, Conjunctions, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Tin House, and elsewhere. A former Stegner Fellow, she’s also received fellowships from Yaddo, the Center for Feminist Research, and others. She currently teaches creative writing at Stanford University.

  • Mark Labowskie

    Mark Labowskie

    Lecturer

    BioMark Labowskie is a Jones Lecturer and former Wallace Stegner Fellow. His stories have appeared in The Missouri Review, ZYZZYVA, American Short Fiction, Subtropics, and elsewhere, and his writing has been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Lighthouse Works, VCCA, and Millay Arts. In addition to fiction workshops, he teaches courses on screenwriting and queer literature.

  • Sara Michas-Martin

    Sara Michas-Martin

    Lecturer

    BioSara Michas-Martin is a poet and nonfiction writer who draws inspiration from science and the natural world. Specific teaching interests include ecopoetics, environmental humanities, science communication, and hybrid forms.

    Her book, Gray Matter, winner of the Poets Out Loud Prize and nominated for the Colorado Book Award, explores the relationship between biology, the brain, and one’s conscious understanding of self. Current projects include a literary nonfiction manuscript that draws on medical, cultural, and natural history to consider how the logic of the maternal body corresponds, or is in tension with, ecological and social systems. Fire Weather, a poetry manuscript, takes on deep ecology and the ethics of care in our moment of environmental precarity.

    Sara holds a BFA in visual art from the University of Michigan and an MFA in poetry from the University of Arizona. Her work has been supported by a Wallace Stegner fellowship, grants from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for Women, the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, as well as fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Arts, Marble House Project, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Community of Writers.

    She received notable essay mentions in the 2023 Best American Essays and the 2023 Best American Science and Nature Writing anthologies. Recent poems and essays have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and published in the American Poetry Review, The Believer, The Glacier, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Longreads, New England Review, Orion, Harvard Review, Kenyon Review, Terrain.org, and elsewhere. She lives in the mountains with her family east of Monterey Bay.