Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program, we're pleased to announce a reading with Stegner Fellows in Poetry and Fiction: D.M. Spratley and Rucy Cui.

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

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D. M. Spratley is a writer from the American South. A Cave Canem Fellow, North Carolina Arts Council Fellow, and William C. Friday Fellow for Human Relations, her work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, The Adroit Journal, Ecotone, Shenandoah, and elsewhere. She studied comparative literature and creative writing at Princeton University and graduated from the MFA program at Hollins University. She has taught writing and literature at Lenoir-Rhyne University, Duke University’s Nasher Museum of Art, and as core faculty at the public humanities organization Night School Bar. She is at work on a poetry manuscript, a novel, and a collection of critical lyric essays. Find her online at  dmspratley.com.

Rucy Cui is a writer from San Jose, California, who has also called Texas, Wyoming, and the south of France home. Her stories have been awarded the Barry Hannah Prize and the Bennington Fiction Prize. Her nonfiction appears in Lonely Planet. A 2024-2026 Wallace Stegner Fellow, she is the recipient of scholarships from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the Mendocino Coast Writers' Conference, and the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. She is currently at work on a novel.