Off the Page is a podcast of stories, essays, and poetry from the Stanford University writing community, produced by the Stanford Storytelling Project in collaboration with the Stanford Creative Writing Program.

Georgina Beaty

Jones Lecturer Georgina Beaty reads “Shelter Seekers,” a story from her recent debut collection The Party is Here, and talks about writing the climate crisis and experimenting with form.

Georgina Beaty is the author of the short story collection The Party is Here (Freehand Books, 2021). Her fiction has appeared in New England Review, The Walrus, The New Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, PRISM, and elsewhere. As an actor and playwright, she’s worked with theatres across Canada and internationally. A 2020-2022 Stegner Fellow in fiction, she holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia, has been supported by fiction residencies at MacDowell and The Banff Centre, and was a screenwriting resident at the Canadian Film Centre. She’s currently a Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford University.

Amanda Gunn

In this episode, Amanda Gunn reads from her debut collection, Things I Didn’t Do With This Body (Copper Canyon Press, 2023).

Amanda Gunn grew up just at the edge of the woods in southern Connecticut with two older brothers. She is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, as well as a PhD candidate in English at Harvard where she studies poetry, ephemerality, and Black pleasure. Her recent work appears in Poetry, Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal, and Narrative Magazine.

Jackson Holbert

Jackson Holbert reads poems from his debut book, Winter Stranger (2023, Milkweed Editions), which won the 2022 Max Ritvo Prize. Jackson was born and raised in eastern Washington. His work has appeared in Poetry, FIELD, The Nation, Narrative, Colorado Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Copper Nickel, The Iowa Review, and multiple editions of Best New Poets. He received his MFA in poetry from the Michener Center for Writers and is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. He has received fellowships from the Michener Center for Writers, The Stadler Center for Poetry, and The Sewanee Writer’s Conference and has been a finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship.

Madeline Haze Curtis
Madeline Haze Curtis’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Bellevue Literary Review, Copper Nickel, West Branch, and The Forge Literary Magazine, among other publications. She received the Louis Sudler Prize for Excellence in the Arts and was nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize. She holds a BA from Stanford University and is currently an MFA candidate in fiction at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Hieu Minh Nguyen
Hieu Minh Nguyen is the author of two collections of poetry, This Way to the Sugar (Write Bloody Press, 2014), and Not Here (Coffee House Press, 2018), which was named the winner of the Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. A recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, Hieu is also a 2018 McKnight Writing Fellow, a Kundiman Fellow, and a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. His work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Best American Poetry, The New York Times, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, a former Stegner Fellow, and a current Jones Lecturer in the creative writing program at Stanford. Originally from the Twin Cities, Hieu now lives in Oakland.

Aamina Ahmad
Aamina Ahmad reads from The Return of Faraz Ali, a rich and deeply moving novel about confronting histories both personal and political.

Aamina Ahmad, a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, has received a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, a Pushcart Prize, and a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award. Her short fiction has appeared in One Story, The Southern Review, Ecotone, and elsewhere; she is also the author of a play, The Dishonored. She teaches Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota.

Lydia Conklin
Author Lydia Conklin reads “Pioneer,” a story from Rainbow Rainbow, their delightful debut collection of prize-winning stories, queer, gender-nonconforming, and trans characters struggle to find love and forgiveness, despite their sometimes comic, sometimes tragic mistakes.

Lydia Conklin is an Assistant Professor of Fiction at Vanderbilt University. Previously they were the Helen Zell Visiting Professor in Fiction at the University of Michigan. They’ve received a Stegner Fellowship in Fiction at Stanford University, a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award, three Pushcart Prizes, a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation, a Creative & Performing Arts Fulbright to Poland, work-study and tuition scholarships from Bread Loaf, and fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, Djerassi, Hedgebrook, the James Merrill House, the Vermont Studio Center, VCCA, Millay, Jentel, Lighthouse Works, Brush Creek, the Santa Fe Art Institute, Caldera, the Sitka Center, and Harvard University, among others. They were the 2015-2017 Creative Writing Fellow in fiction at Emory University. Their fiction has appeared in Tin House, American Short Fiction, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, and elsewhere, and is forthcoming from The Paris Review. They have drawn graphic fiction for Lenny Letter, Drunken Boat, and the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago and cartoons for The New Yorker and Narrative Magazine.

Shannon Pufahl
In this episode, Shannon Pufahl’s reads “Lucky.” You can find more of Shannon’s work at [his/her] website: www.shannonpufahl.com/about

Arielle DeVito
In this episode, Arielle DeVito reads two short stories, “Owen” and “Wing-Longing.” You can find more of Arielle’s work at her website: arielledevito.com/

Sterling HolyWhiteMountain
In this episode, Sterling HolyWhiteMountain reads an excerpt from the anthology, “The Education of Little Man False Star Boy.”

Derrick Austin
In this episode, Stegner Fellow Derrick Austin reads a suite of poems.

Neha Chaudhary-Kamdar
In this episode, Neha Chaudhary-Kamdar reads an excerpt from her first novel.

Chloe Hamilton
In this episode, Chloe Hamilton reads a suite of poems.

Off the Page is a podcast of stories, essays, and poetry from the Stanford University writing community, produced by the Stanford Storytelling Project in collaboration with the Stanford Creative Writing Program. Music by Breakmaster Cylinder

Lena Blackmon
In this episode, Lena Blackmon reads a suite of poems.

Off the Page is a podcast of stories, essays, and poetry from the Stanford University writing community, produced by the Stanford Storytelling Project in collaboration with the Stanford Creative Writing Program. Music by Breakmaster Cylinder

Sam Sax
In this episode, sam sax reads a suite of poems.
You can find more of sam’s work at his website:
www.samsax.com/

Off the Page is a podcast of stories, essays, and poetry from the Stanford University writing community, produced by the Stanford Storytelling Project in collaboration with the Stanford Creative Writing Program. Music by Breakmaster Cylinder

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Sophia Boyd-Fliegel
In this episode, Sophia Boyd-Fliegel reads her essay “Measures, Movements.”

Off the Page is a podcast of stories, essays, and poetry from the Stanford University writing community, produced by the Stanford Storytelling Project in collaboration with the Stanford Creative Writing Program. Music by Breakmaster Cylinder

Darrow Farr
In this episode, Darrow Farr reads her story, “Chapel of Flowers.”

Off the Page is a podcast of stories, essays, and poetry from the Stanford University writing community, produced by the Stanford Storytelling Project in collaboration with the Stanford Creative Writing Program. Music by Breakmaster Cylinder

Lila Savage
In this episode, Lila Savage reads her story, “You’re Welcome.”

Off the Page is a podcast of stories, essays, and poetry from the Stanford University writing community, produced by the Stanford Storytelling Project in collaboration with the Stanford Creative Writing Program. Music by Breakmaster Cylinder

Richie Hofmann
In this episode, Richie Hofmann reads poems from Second Empire.
You can find more of Richie’s work at his website: www.richiehofmann.com

Off the Page is a podcast of stories, essays, and poetry from the Stanford University writing community, produced by the Stanford Storytelling Project in collaboration with the Stanford Creative Writing Program. Music by Breakmaster Cylinder

Maya Mahony
In this episode, Maya Mahony reads her story, “Lolo in the Mountains.”

Off the Page is a podcast of stories, essays, and poetry from the Stanford University writing community, produced by the Stanford Storytelling Project in collaboration with the Stanford Creative Writing Program. Music by Breakmaster Cylinder

Rose Whitmore
In this episode, Rose Whitmore reads her essay, “Swarm.”
You can find more of Rose work at her website: www.rosewhitmore.com/

Off the Page is a podcast of stories, essays, and poetry from the Stanford University writing community, produced by the Stanford Storytelling Project in collaboration with the Stanford Creative Writing Program. Music by Breakmaster Cylinder

Kai Carlson-Wee
In this episode, Kai Carlson-Wee reads a suite of poems.
You can find more of Kai’s work at his website:
kaicarlsonwee.com/

Jordan Baron Goldman
In this episode, Jordan Baron Goldman reads her story “The Lock.”

Off the Page is a podcast of stories, essays, and poetry from the Stanford University writing community, produced by the Stanford Storytelling Project in collaboration with the Stanford Creative Writing Program. Music by Breakmaster Cylinder

Michael Shewmaker
In this episode, Michael Shewmaker reads a suite of poems from his recent collection, Penumbra. 
You can find more of Michael’s work at his website: www.michaelshewmaker.net/

Off the Page is a podcast of stories, essays, and poetry from the Stanford University writing community, produced by the Stanford Storytelling Project in collaboration with the Stanford Creative Writing Program. Music by Breakmaster Cylinder

Dominic Russ-Combs
In this episode, Dominic Russ-Combs reads his story “Blood by Blood.” You can find more of Dominic’s work at his website: www.dominicruss-combs.com/

Off the Page is a podcast of stories, essays, and poetry from the Stanford University writing community, produced by the Stanford Storytelling Project in collaboration with the Stanford Creative Writing Program. Music by Breakmaster Cylinder

Sarah Frisch
In this episode, Sarah Frisch reads her story, “River Blindness.”

Off the Page is a podcast of stories, essays, and poetry from the Stanford University writing community, produced by the Stanford Storytelling Project in collaboration with the Stanford Creative Writing Program. Music by Breakmaster Cylinder

Keith Ekiss
In this episode, Keith Ekiss reads a suite of poems.

Off the Page is a podcast of stories, essays, and poetry from the Stanford University writing community, produced by the Stanford Storytelling Project in collaboration with the Stanford Creative Writing Program. Music by Breakmaster Cylinder

Jenn Alandy
In this episode, Jenn Alandy Trahan reads “Timmy Lincecum, You Magnificent Bastard.”

Off the Page is a podcast of stories, essays, and poetry from the Stanford University writing community, produced by the Stanford Storytelling Project in collaboration with the Stanford Creative Writing Program. Music by Breakmaster Cylinder

Will Brewer
In this episode, Will Brewer reads a suite of poems.

You can find more of Will’s work at his website:
williambrewer.net/

Off the Page is a podcast of stories, essays, and poetry from the Stanford University writing community, produced by the Stanford Storytelling Project in collaboration with the Stanford Creative Writing Program.

Edward Porter
In this episode, Edward Porter reads his short story “Why Wait, Why Bother?” which can also be read in full online at the Hudson Review:

hudsonreview.com/2014/11/why-wait…er/#.Wwi-VdMvzjA

Off the Page is a podcast of stories, essays, and poetry from the Stanford University writing community, produced by the Stanford Storytelling Project in collaboration with the Stanford Creative Writing Program.

Chris Drangle
In this episode, Chris Drangle, reads his short story, “Let’s Make Up Jack,” which can also be read in full at the Kenyon Review Online, here:

www.kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issu…rangle-342846/

Off the Page is a podcast of stories, essays, and poetry from the Stanford University writing community, produced by the Stanford Storytelling Project in collaboration with the Stanford Creative Writing Program.

Brittany Perham
In this episode, Brittany Perham, a poet and Jones Lecturer in the Stanford Creative Writing Program, reads a suite of poems, and discusses her craft and process with Off the Page host Mark Labowskie. You can find more of Brittany Perham’s work at her website: brittanyperham.com

Off the Page is a podcast of stories, essays, and poetry from the Stanford University writing community, produced by the Stanford Storytelling Project in collaboration with the Stanford Creative Writing Program.