Stanford University
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Vida Celina James
Lecturer, English
BioVida James is Nuyorican, currently living in San Francisco. She was a 2024-2026 Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University. Her writing has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Center for Fiction, Periplus, Storyknife, Tin House, Bread Loaf, MASS MoCA, the St. Botolph Club Foundation, and VONA. She holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts - Amherst and an MSW from Hunter College. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, Story, New England Review, and elsewhere.
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Mark Labowskie
Lecturer, English
Affiliate, EnglishBioMark 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.
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Sara Michas-Martin
Lecturer, English
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. Black Box, forthcoming from Catapult Books (nonfiction), 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, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Community of Writers.
Recent poems and essays have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, received notable mentions in Best American Essays and Best American Science and Nature Writing anthologies, and have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Longreads, New England Review, Orion, Kenyon Review, Terrain.org, and elsewhere. She lives in the mountains with her family east of Monterey Bay. -
Hieu Minh Nguyen
Lecturer, English
BioHieu Minh Nguyen is the author of two collections of poetry, This Way to the Sugar (Write Bloody Press, 2014), and Not Here (Coffee House Press, 2018), which was named the winner of the Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. A recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, Hieu is also a 2018 McKnight Writing Fellow, a Kundiman Fellow, and a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. His work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Best American Poetry, The New York Times, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Originally from the Twin Cities, Hieu now lives in Oakland.
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Dāshaun Washington
Lecturer, English
BioDāshaun Washington is a poet from Pittsfield, Massachusetts. His work has received support from the Wallace Stegner Fellowship, Yaddo, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Lighthouse Works, and Ucross Foundation. His poems have appeared in Poem-a-Day, New England Review, Poetry, The Nation, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. He lives in San Francisco.
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Zach Williams
Lecturer, English
BioZach Williams' debut short story collection, Beautiful Days, was published by Doubleday in 2024. Beautiful Days was longlisted for the 2025 PEN / Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection and is a finalist for the 2025 California Book Award for First Fiction. Williams' work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and McSweeney's Quarterly Concern. His story “Trial Run” was one of three that won The Paris Review a 2023 ASME Award for Fiction. Williams is a Jones Lecturer in Fiction at Stanford, where he previously held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship.
