Stegner Fellow Reading with Paul Tran and Georgina Beaty

Paul Tran

Georgina Beaty

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Reading with Stegner Fellows in Poetry and Fiction, Paul Tran and Georgina Beaty

Paul Tran is the author of the debut poetry collection, All the Flowers Kneeling, forthcoming from Penguin Poets in February 2022. Their work appears in The New Yorker, The Nation, Good Morning America, and elsewhere, including the Lionsgate movie Love Beats Rhymes with Azealia Banks, Common, and Jill Scott. Paul is the first Asian American since 1993—and first transgender poet ever—to win the Nuyorican Poets Café Grand Slam, placing top 10 at the Individual World Poetry Slam and top 2 at the National Poetry Slam. A recipient of the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize, as well as fellowships from the Poetry Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, Paul is a Visiting Faculty in Poetry at Pacific University MFA in Writing and a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University

Georgina Beaty is the author of The Party is Here, her début story collection, forthcoming from Freehand Books. Her fiction has appeared in New England Review, The Walrus, The New Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, PRISM and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia and has been supported by fellowships and writing residencies at MacDowell, the Canadian Film Centre and The Banff Centre. As an actor and playwright, she’s worked with theatres across Canada and internationally. Georgina grew up in the Rocky mountains and currently lives in Berkeley, California where she is a Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University. 

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