School of Humanities and Sciences
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Keith Ekiss
Lecturer
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsPoetry, Translation, Speculative Literature.
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John Evans
Lecturer
BioJohn W. Evans is the author of The Fight Journal (Rattle, forthcoming 2023), winner of the 2022 Rattle Chapbook Prize, and Should I Still Wish: A Memoir (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), Young Widower: A Memoir (University of Nebraska Press, 2014), and The Consolations: Poems (Trio House Press, 2014).
His books have won prizes including the the Rattle Chapbook Prize, the Peace Corps Writers Book Prize, a ForeWord Reviews Book Prize, the River Teeth Book Prize, the Sawtooth Poetry Prize, and the Trio Award. Should I Still Wish was selected by Poets and Writers magazine as a “new and noteworthy” title of January/February 2017, and is published in the American Lives Series.
His work appears or is forthcoming in The Missouri Review (2016 Editor’s Prize Finalist), Poets & Writers, Slate, Boston Review, ZYZZYVA, The Rumpus, The Flyfish Journal, Pangyrus, and Best American Essays 2011 (Honorable Mention), as well as the chapbooks, No Season (FWQ, 2011) and Zugzwang (RockSaw, 2009).
John is currently the Phyllis Draper Lecturer in Nonfiction at Stanford University, where he was previously a Jones Lecturer and a Wallace Stegner Fellow. At Stanford, John has been recognized as a “favorite professor” by the women’s basketball, water polo, and volleyball teams, as well as the Knight Fellows and the DCI Fellows. He lives in Northern California with his three young sons. -
Sarah Frisch
Lecturer
BioSarah Frisch is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and current Lecturer in the Creative Writing Program. Her work has been published in The Paris Review, the VQR, and The New England Review. She’s won a Pushcart Prize and an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant for fiction and has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Washington University in St. Louis.
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Scott Hutchins
Lecturer
BioScott Hutchins is a former Truman Capote fellow in the Wallace Stegner Program at Stanford University. His work has appeared in StoryQuarterly, Catamaran, Five Chapters, The Owls, The Rumpus, The New York Times, San Francisco Magazine and Esquire, and has been set to improvisational jazz. He is the recipient of two major Hopwood awards and the Andrea Beauchamp prize in short fiction. In 2006 and 2010, he was an artist-in-residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. His novel A Working Theory of Love was a San Francisco Chronicle and Salon Best Book of 2012 and has been translated into nine languages.
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Tom Kealey
Lecturer
BioTom Kealey is the author of Thieves I’ve Known and The Creative Writing MFA Handbook. His awards include the Flannery O’Connor Prize and the Joseph Henry Jackson Award, and his stories have appeared in Glimmer Train, Story Quarterly, Best American NonRequired, Alaska Quarterly Review, Indiana Review and many other places.
Tom’s 20 years of teaching and administrating at Stanford has encompassed many areas. Along with Directors Eavan Boland and John L’Heureux he designed the Levinthal Tutorials, a unique one-on-one mentoring program between Stegner Fellows and Stanford Undergraduates. Tom guided the Levinthal Program from its inception in 2003 to 2023.
Along with Adam Johnson, Tom co-created the Graphic Novel Project at Stanford, a two-quarter course where students artists and writers design, create, and publish a full-length graphic novel. Titles included Shake Girl, Virunga, and Pika-don. The Graphic Novel Project has been a mainstay of the Creative Writing Program since 2008.
Tom designed the Fiction Into Film program and Fiction Into Film minor concentration in the CW Program.
One of the most popular writing courses at Stanford is the Novel Writing Intensive course, now in its 14th year. Tom Kealey and Scott Hutchins guide students who write a full-length novel of 50,000 words. Based on National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWrimo), over 300 Stanford students have completed NaNoWrimo under the guidance of Tom and Scott.
Tom has also taught Creative Nonfiction, Screenwriting Intensive, the Novel Salon, Creative Expressions, Science Fiction, Dialogue Writing, New Media Writing, Imaginative Realms, and many others.
In the English Department, Tom co-created The Secret Lives of the Short Story with Gavin Jones, an exploration of the short story’s evolution, voices, and techniques from the 19th to the 21st century, as well as Short Story to Big Screen, also taught with Gavin Jones, where students explored the art of screenplay adaptation.
Tom’s current favorite course is First Chapters, where students explore how an opening chapter sets the stage for the rest of a novel. Students complete a first chapter of their own, and then workshop it in class.
As Curriculum Coordinator of Creative Writing from 2008-2019, Tom designed the entire Creative Writing Undergraduate Course schedule, over 100 courses, on an annual basis. He worked closely with program director Eavan Boland and administrator Christina Ablaza to satisfy multiple requirements at the department, program, lecturer, and student level.
As Jones Teaching Mentor, from 2005-2023, Tom advised and mentored over 35 creative writing lecturers over 18 years. Tom introduced new lecturers to program requirements and resources, designed orientations and follow-ups, and often visited classes and offered feedback, and provided trouble-shooting advice in classroom/student situations.
As Liaison to and Curriculum Coordinator of Continuing Studies, 2008-2020, Tom worked closely with program director Eavan Boland and dean of continuing studies Dan Colman. He coordinated over 60 classes each year taught by 35 lecturers. Tom designed each year’s Creative Writing Continuing Studies schedule.
And of course Tom was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford Creative Writing from 2001-2003. He continues to enjoy his Stanford experience.
Tom received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he received the Distinguished Teaching Award.
