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Faith Merino

 Faith Marino is the author of the novel Cormorant Lake which was long listed for the Center for Fiction's 2021 First Novel Award. She holds an MFA from UC Davis, and her short stories have appeared in the Indiana Review, Harper Pallette, the Carolina Quarterly, and more, in addition to inclusion among the Best American Short Stories Distinguished Stories.
She is currently at work on a second novel, as well as a short story collection, and is a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford.

Sarah Lewis

Sarah Lewis is a coterminal master’s student at Stanford University in the English Department, having pursued a BA in English and Music. She was a recipient of a Stanford Major Grant for playwriting and a winner of Sunken Garden Poetry Festival Fresh Voices Competition. Her dramatic work has been performed at the All Together Now Festival in Waterford, Ireland, as well at Hartford Stage's Write On Festival in Connecticut, and at Stanford. She was the Editor in Chief of Mahberet Magazine at Brown University, an intern at the National Theatre School of Ireland (The Gaiety School of Acting), and one of the first two women to be accepted into Fleet Street, a 40-year-old musical comedy group at Stanford. In musical theater and opera, she has portrayed everything from a murderous pâtissière (Mrs. Lovett), a flying nanny (Mary Poppins) and a petulant Russian prince (Orlofsky).

Phoebe Oathout (UNBLEEPED)

Phoebe Oathout lives in Baltimore with her girlfriend and is a student at the Hopkins Writing Sems in Fiction. Before that, she worked as a financial aid assistant at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. She holds a BA in English and an MA in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University. She's at work on a novel and collection of short stories.

Joseph Rios - UNBLEEPED

Joseph Rios was named Fresno's Poet Laureate in 2023. He is the author of Shadowboxing: Poems and Impersonations (Omnidawn), winner of the American Book Award and was named one of the Notable Debut Poets by Poets & Writers Magazine for 2017. His poems can be found at Poem A Day, Huizache, The Rumpus, the San Francisco Chronicle, and on Metro buses and trains in Los Angeles. He lives in Fresno.

Jared Klegar

Jared Klegar is a current senior at Stanford University. His writing has appeared in Catapult, Electric Literature, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, where he is an editorial assistant.

Jalen Eutsey

Jalen Eutsey is a 2022-2024 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. His poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2022, Nashville Review, Poetry Northwest, Harper Pallet, and The Hopkins Review.

Isaac Vaught

Stanford grad Isaac Vaught (class of 2020) reads his essay “The Burden of Bad Men,” which explores masculinity, mass incarceration, and legacy.
Isaac Vaught received his BA from Stanford University, where he received the 2020 Creative Nonfiction Prize. He is currently an MFA candidate in Fiction at Florida State University.

Zach Williams

Zach Williams' debut story collection, Beautiful Days, is forthcoming from Doubleday in 2024. He is a 2021-2023 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University and holds an MFA from New York University. His work has been featured in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and McSweeney's Quarterly Concern.

Georgina Beaty (UNBLEEPED VERSION)

Jones Lecturer Georgina Beaty reads “Shelter Seekers,” a story from her recent debut collection The Party is Here, and talks about writing the climate crisis and experimenting with form.
Georgina Beaty is the author of the short story collection The Party is Here (Freehand Books, 2021). Her fiction has appeared in New England Review, The Walrus, The New Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, PRISM, and elsewhere. As an actor and playwright, she’s worked with theatres across Canada and internationally. A 2020-2022 Stegner Fellow in fiction, she holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia, has been supported by fiction residencies at MacDowell and The Banff Centre, and was a screenwriting resident at the Canadian Film Centre. She's currently a Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford University.

Georgina Beaty (BLEEPED VERSION)

Jones Lecturer Georgina Beaty reads “Shelter Seekers,” a story from her recent debut collection The Party is Here, and talks about writing the climate crisis and experimenting with form.
Georgina Beaty is the author of the short story collection The Party is Here (Freehand Books, 2021). Her fiction has appeared in New England Review, The Walrus, The New Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, PRISM, and elsewhere. As an actor and playwright, she’s worked with theatres across Canada and internationally. A 2020-2022 Stegner Fellow in fiction, she holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia, has been supported by fiction residencies at MacDowell and The Banff Centre, and was a screenwriting resident at the Canadian Film Centre. She's currently a Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford University.