Reading with Edgar Kunz and Vauhini Vara

The Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce our next event: A Reading with former Stegner Fellow, Edgar Kunz, and Stanford alumni, Vauhini Vara.

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

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Edgar Kunz is the author of two collections of poems: Fixer (Ecco, 2023), a New York Times Editor's Choice book, and Tap Out (Ecco, 2019), which the Washington Post called "a gritty, insightful debut." He has been a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. New poems appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Poetry. He lives in Baltimore and teaches at Goucher College.

Vauhini Vara is the author of This is Salvaged, named one of the most anticipated books of the year by Lithub, Electric Literature, and The Millions, and The Immortal King Rao, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize. She is also a journalist, writing for Wired, The New York Times Magazine, and others. She teaches at Colorado State University as a 2023-24 Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop's Book Project. She is also the secretary of Periplus, a mentorship collective serving writers of color.