Stegner Fellow Reading with Ladan Khoddam-Khorasani, Kanak Kapur, and Bhion Achimba

Co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the Stanford Humanities Center, we are pleased to announce a reading with Stegner Fellows in Poetry and Fiction: Ladan Khoddam-Khorasani, Kanak Kapur, and Bhion Achimba. 

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

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لادن خدام خراسانی Ladan Khoddam-Khorasani (she/they) is a poet, educator and public health practitioner. She is interested in how we will use poetry and language to take care of one another.

Kanak Kapur is a writer originally from Mumbai. Her short fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, the Sewanee Review, and more. Her debut novel is forthcoming from Riverhead Books in 2027.

Bhion Achimba grew up in rural southeastern Nigeria and came to the US as a Harvard University Scholar at Risk Fellow and a visiting poet in the English Department. A graduate of Brown University's MFA program, they were named the 2023 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow by the Poetry Foundation and have been published in The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, Poetry, Foreign Policy Magazine, et cetera. Bhion has been awarded fellowships and residencies by PEN International, The Fine Arts Work Center, Yaddo, Monson Arts, St. Botolph Foundation, and the University of Utah’s English Department, where they received the Vice-Presidential Doctoral Fellowship. He lives in Berkeley, California.