The Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce a reading with Stegner Fellows in Poetry and Fiction: Dāshaun Washington, Bernardo Wade, and Vida James. 

This event is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Registration is encouraged but not required. Register here

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Dāshaun Washington is a poet from Pittsfield, Massachusetts. His writing has been supported by Yaddo, the Bread Loaf Writersʼ Conference, Lighthouse Works, Millay Arts, The Watering Hole, and beyond. His work has appeared in Poetry, The Nation, Indiana Review, Poem-a-Day, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere.

Born & raised in New Orleans, Bernardo Wade tries at poems, catches elbows on the court, wanders around the Bay—occasionally on Stanford’s campus as a Wallace Stegner Fellow. Previously the Editor of Indiana Review, he now serves as Assistant Editor and Poetry Editor for Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. & though he’s published in a bunch of literary journals no one in his family has ever heard of, they remain proud of him, especially when they are featured in the poems. His first full-length poetry collection, A Love Tap, is forthcoming from Lookout Books of UNC Wilmington. He's infatuated with Ed Roberson's question, "Can you O.D. on life?”

Vida James is a writer from Brooklyn, NY. She is a 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow and a 2023-2024 Center for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellow. She holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts - Amherst. Her writing has been supported by Periplus, Storyknife, Tin House, Bread Loaf, MASS MoCA, and the St. Botolph Club Foundation. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, Story, New England Review, and elsewhere.