Stegner Fellow Reading with J.L. Chen and Heidi Kaloustian

The Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce a reading with Stegner Fellows in Poetry and Fiction: J.L. Chen and Heidi Kaloustian.

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

J.L. Chen was born in Shanghai, lived in New York for nearly a decade before making her home in Vancouver, Canada, where she writes most mornings and dances into the night. Working in both English and Chinese, she has published poetry and personal essays in ARC Poetry, Literary Review of Canada, Tupelo Quarterly, Northwest Review, PRISM International, Queen's Quarterly, subTerrain, and more. A finalist for the 2025 Robert and Adele Schiff Award (Cincinnati Review) and longlisted for the 2025 CBC Poetry Prize, Chen holds an MFA from the University of King's College and is at work on a poetry manuscript and a memoir. (Instagram @jlchenwrites)

Heidi Kaloustian is a writer from Michigan. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was the Fiction Editor of the literary journal The Iowa Review. She has been the recipient of an Avery Hopwood Award in Fiction, a Kresge Fellowship in the Literary Arts, and a Robert J. Schulze Memorial Fellowship for a first novel. She is currently at work on a novel and a collection of stories.