The Stanford Storytelling Project

To contact us, please email storytelling@stanford.edu or write to:

Stanford Storytelling Project
450 Serra Mall Dr. Building 460
Stanford, CA 94305-2085

Director

Jonah has taught literature and writing at Stanford since 2002. He has published fiction, essays, and literary criticism, and received an MFA in creative writing from Hollins College and a PhD in English from Brown University. He is currently trying to write three books at the same time.

Deputy Director

Bonnie graduated from Stanford in 2008 with a B.A. in History. She is interested in science, technology, architecture, art, and design. She currently has three jobs in three cities, and plans to relocate to Scandinavia soon. Visit her website Here

Senior Producers

Charlie is a sophomore at Stanford and a connoisseur of all things refined and tasteful. He hopes to one day be a disembodied voice on the radio or semi-famous.

Dan is a junior minoring in Creative Writing with a major in American Studies, but don't ask him about the Civil War. It just makes him grumpy. One time in his native state of Massachusetts, he told a ghost story in his friend's tree house to much acclaim. He also likes ice cream.

Assistant Producers

Clare is a sophomore at Stanford studying product design or linguistics, depending on the weather. Originally a passionate and perhaps blind follower of Ira Glass' work, she was drawn to the Storytelling Project through the constant surprises in life that beg recording. Clare has roots in Alaska and Austria.

Rachel grew up in Indiana and is now a sophomore at Stanford. She likes art, dolphins, books, people, and big dinners on Sunday night. She appreciates suggestions on how to combine these interests into a major.

Killeen graduated from Stanford with a degree in English and French. She's interested in telling people's stories: visually, orally and on paper. She's currently working on telling the story and making maps of the construction of the railroads in the American West. If she could do anything and be anywhere, she'd be wandering through the Yosemite back country, collecting and mapping voices and sounds and stories from the High Camp workers up there.

Hannah is a junior majoring in Philosophy and Religious Studies at Stanford. She also serves as a Research Fellow for the Republic of Letters, an initiative to create a map of Voltaire's correspondence. In spare moments, Hannah can most likely be found playing obscure songs on her ukulele. You can find her website Here

Matt graduated from The Ohio State University in 2004 and is now a PhD student in the Stanford Biophysics program. He divides his time between his basement research lab and the basement of KZSU, where he is the host of a music show called The Ground State. His best personal story revolves around a burst appendix and high school prom.

Arielle is a senior at Stanford, studying neurobiology and bioethics. She enjoys running, mastering public transportation systems (so far: Chicago, SF, NYC, DC, and the Marguerite), and taking hypothetical situations very seriously. Previously, she has interned at Radio Lab, followed around the Kitchen Sisters, and attended the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.

Daniel is a computer science major and sophomore at Stanford. He is also a member of the Stanford Savoyards. When not making radio you may find him enjoying wacky musical theater, cooking delicious and exotic foods, or playing Scrabble. He was once described as "a perfectly goofy but lovable book-wormish adventurer."

Will graduated in 2009 with a degree in Film Studies. He enjoys making, watching and discussing movies, especially when they include "real-life" people and events. He likes how, after watching a documentary, he can google the characters' names to find vastly different versions of a story, connecting those characters to the bigger story, the one that includes practically everything. His current project is here.

Lee is a Ph.D. candidate in the English Department at Stanford. He is working on a dissertation called Wipe That Smirk off Your Face: Postironic Literature and the Politics of Character, a study of writers who have tried to overcome what they see as the all-encompassing irony, cynicism, and detachment of contemporary culture. His first novel, Pop Apocalypse, will be published in May of 2009 by Ecco/HarperCollins. Visit his website Here

Noah is a senior at Stanford studying Philosophy and Literature. He's interested in epistemology, non-meaning and meta-anything. He also likes photography, comic books, and programming electronic music. He likes Javier Marias, green tea and spaghetti westerns. Visit his website Here

Liz is the author of Interpretive Work (Arktoi Books, 2008) and Approaching Ice (forthcoming from Persea Books). She is also the founder of Broadsided Press, which puts words and art on the streets. Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The Believer, Orion, and elsewhere. Currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, when not writing, she works as a naturalist. Her favorite animal today? The rhinoceros auklet. Visit her websites: Ebradfield.com Broadsided

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Esteban is a PhD student in Developmental Biology, where he studies the organization of bacterial cells. His interest in storytelling comes from growing up listening to his grandfather's real-life stories. Turns out many of those stories are not true. Turns out it doesn't matter.

Alumni

Micah started his life in the great Los Angeles sprawl and is now a senior studying International Relations and Creative Writing at Stanford. Along with the Storytelling Project, Micah is the KZSU News Director. Outside of radio he enjoys reading, writing, talking to himself, and attending basketball games. Micah hopes to pursue a career in a writing-related field and would welcome any job offers.

Editorial Board

Advisory Board