Co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the Stanford Humanities Center, we are pleased to announce a reading with Stegner Fellows in Fiction and Poetry: Weijia Pan and Kathleen Wheaton. 

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

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Weijia Pan is a poet and translator from Shanghai, China. He is the author of Motherlands, chosen by Louise Glück for the 2023 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize and forthcoming with Milkweed Editions in 2024. He received his MFA from the University of Houston, where he was awarded the Inprint Paul Verlaine Prize in Poetry. His poems have appeared in AGNI, Boulevard, Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, Georgia Review, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere.

Kathleen Wheaton grew up in California, studied at Stanford and received an MFA from Boston University. She was a librarian at the New Yorker and then worked for 25 years as a journalist and travel writer in Spain, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Bethesda, Maryland. Her collection, Aliens and Other Stories, received the Washington Writers’ Publishing House Fiction Prize. Her second collection is forthcoming from Betty Books. She is at work on a novel.