Kai Carlson-Wee

Bio

Kai 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.

Academic Appointments

• Lecturer, Creative Writing

2024-25 Courses

• American Road Trip
  ENGLISH 90R (Spr)
• Fire Stories: Narrative in the Digital Age
  ENGLISH 9CFS (Aut)
• Reading and Writing Poetry
  ENGLISH 92 (Win)
• The American Road Trip
  ENGLISH 93Q (Spr)
• Writing Off the Page: Songwriting, Film, and Spoken Word
  ENGLISH 9CP (Win)
• Independent Studies (1)
  • Individual Work
    ENGLISH 198 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
• Prior Year Courses

  2023-24 Courses

  • American Road Trip
    ENGLISH 90R (Spr)
  • Fire Stories: Narrative in the Digital Age
    ENGLISH 9CFS (Aut)
  • Reading and Writing Poetry
    ENGLISH 92 (Win)
  • The American Road Trip
    ENGLISH 93Q (Spr)
  • Writing Off the Page: Songwriting, Film, and Spoken Word
    ENGLISH 9CP (Win)

  2022-23 Courses

  • American Road Trip
    ENGLISH 9CA (Spr)
  • Fire Stories: Narrative in the Digital Age
    ENGLISH 9CFS (Aut)
  • Poetry Off the Page: Songwriting, Film, and Spoken Word
    ENGLISH 9CP (Win)
  • Reading and Writing Poetry
    ENGLISH 92 (Win)
  • The American Road Trip
    ENGLISH 93Q (Spr)

  2021-22 Courses

  • American Road Trip
    ENGLISH 9CA (Spr)
  • Fiction into Film
    ENGLISH 190F (Win)
  • Fire Stories: Narrative in the Digital Age
    ENGLISH 9CFS (Aut)
  • Poetry Off the Page: Songwriting, Film, and Spoken Word
    ENGLISH 9CP (Win)
  • The American Road Trip
    ENGLISH 93Q (Spr)