Fiction |
Poetry |
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| 2007
(current) |
Sarah Frisch James Gavin Vanessa Hutchinson Stephanie Soileau Justin St. Germain |
James Arthur Elizabeth Bradfield Sean Hill Laura McKee Joshua Rivkin |
| 2006
(current) |
Molly Antopol-Johnson Skip Horack Stacey Swann Joshua Tyree Abigail Ulman |
Kirsten Andersen Andrew Grace Jill McDonough Michael McGriff Alexandra Teague |
| 2005 | Rusty Dolleman Sharon May Rita Mae Reese Suzanne Rivecca Shimon Tanaka |
Keith Ekiss Maria Hummel Matthew W. Miller Alison Stine John Struloeff |
| 2004 | Russell Franklin Tyrone G. Johnson Krista Landers Jeffrey O'Keefe Nora Pierce |
Shane Book Jim Fisher Jeffrey Hoffman Sara Michas-Martin Rachel Richardson |
| 2003 | Valerie Brelinski Scott Hutchins Chelsey Johnson Glori Simmons Lachlan Smith |
Amaud Jamaul Johnson Shara Lessley Emily Rosko Bruce Snider Brian Spears |
Will was born in Southampton, England, coming to the United States in 1986. He presently resides in Madison, Wisconsin. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Virginia in 2007. He has two book length manuscripts he will continue working on as a Stegner Fellow.
Harriet is returning to Stanford after receiving her BA here. Her MFA is from the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop. She is looking forward to this time as a Stegner to concentrate on her writing, exploring how to bring her work together into a novel. Harriet currently lives in New York City.
Rob lives in San Francisco and has an MA from San Francisco State University. Having published many short stories, Rob would like to use his time as a Stegner Fellow to complete a novel. His story in New England Review was featured recently in the online literary magazine review, Luna Park.
Ammi grew up in suburban New York, and earned a BA in Writing and Literature while taking undergraduate and graduate level fiction workshops at New York University. She was living in New Orleans when the Katrina storm hit, following which she began to travel around the U.S. where many of her experiences influenced her writing. She would like to finish this collection of stories while a part of the Stegner program.
Jesmyn received her BA in English from Stanford in 1999 and an MFA in Fiction from the University of Michigan in 2005. Having grown up in the South, she writes about the lives of the community and people she encountered there. Jesmyn would use this time provided by the fellowship to complete and edit her second novel.
Many of John’s poems reflect his extensive travel that took him as a Peace Corps volunteer to Bangladesh, as a Fulbright Hays fellow to India and teacher to Romania. He has an MFA in Poetry from Florida International University and a BA from Northwestern. John would like to spend his time as a Stegner writing and revising a manuscript of poems.
Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and now living in San Francisco, Chanda has a continuing interest in writing poems that explore the personal narratives and culture of African-Americans who migrated to western territories at the end of the Civil War. Chanda has an MFA from Cornell University in Poetry. She plans to use the Stegner Fellowship time toward working to complete her first book.
Jennifer received her BFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Sante Fe, New Mexico, and an MFA from Vermont College of the Union Institute in 2007. She would use her time as a Stegner Fellow to pursue a series of linked prose-poems exploring the ideas of boundary, continent, containment, and freedom related to the “imagination of America”.
Dina graduated from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop with an MFA. Her BFA in Film, Video and Animation Production is from the Pratt Art Institute. As a Stegner Fellow, Dina would like to complete three writing projects she has started and looks forward to being a part of a workshop community again.
Reflection on his family’s background and travels in Turkey that emphasized the differences in people have influenced Peter Kline’s poetry. In his writing he explores these differences and asks, “Who belongs and who doesn’t”. Peter received his MFA in Poetry Writing from the University of Virginia, and lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.