Stegner Fellow Reading with Kyle Edwards, Austin Araujo, and Nicole Caplain Kelly

The Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce a reading with our Stegner Fellows in Fiction and Poetry: Kyle Edwards, Austin Araujo, and Nicole Caplain Kelly.

Kyle Edwards grew up on the Lake Manitoba First Nation in Manitoba. A graduate of Ryerson University, he has worked as a journalist for Native News Online, ProPublica and Maclean’s, and was a 2021 Nieman Visiting Fellow at Harvard University. He has won two National Magazine Awards in Canada for his reporting, and was named Emerging Indigenous Journalist by the Canadian Association of Journalists in 2019. He lives in Palo Alto and is writing his first novel.

Austin Araujo is a writer from northwest Arkansas. He received his MFA from Indiana University, where he was awarded an Academy of American Poets Prize. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Missouri Review, Shenandoah, Memorious, Four Way Review, and The Rumpus, among others.

Nicole Caplain Kelly arrives at Stanford having newly completed the MFA Writing program at Columbia University, where she was nominated for the Henfield Prize. She made her professional start at Jazz at Lincoln Center, resided in England for several years, and is at work on her first novel. 

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