Stegner Fellow Reading with Priscilla Wathington and Jonathon Atkinson

The Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce a reading with Stegner Fellows in Poetry and Fiction: Priscilla Wathington and Jonathon Atkinson.

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

Priscilla Wathington is a Palestinian American poet and the author of the chapbook, "Paper and Stick". Her poems have appeared in The Adroit Journal, Four Way Review, Prairie Schooner, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She was named a Djanikian Scholar in 2026 and a Tin House Scholar in 2025, and has previously served as a Sam Mazza Writer in Residence at San Francisco State University’s Poetry Center. Wathington is a Senior Poetry Editor at Harbor Review and holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College.

Jonathon Atkinson is a writer from Northern California. His work has appeared in n+1, New Ohio Review, and Water~Stone Review. He holds an MFA from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, teaches in the Language and Thinking Program at Bard College, and mentors with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop.