The Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce the next event with the Stein Visiting Writer: A Reading with Rachel Kushner.

This event is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Registration is encouraged but not required. Registration form coming soon.

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Rachel Kushner is the author of the novels The Mars Room, The Flamethrowers, and Telex from Cuba, the short story collection The Strange Case of Rachel K, and a book of essays, The Hard Crowd. Her new novel, Creation Lake, was published by Scribner in September of 2024, and has just been named to the shortlist for the Booker Prize and the longlist for the National Book Award. She has won the Prix Médicis étranger and been a finalist for the Booker Prize, the Folio Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction, and was twice a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. She is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and the recipient of the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her books have been translated into 27 languages.

Kushner is this year's Stein Visiting Writer. Each year, the Creative Writing Program welcomes distinguished writers to teach a Stanford writing seminar to undergraduates. These seminars are made possible with the generous support of Isaac and Madeline Stein.