Hieu Minh Nguyen (poetry ’19) is currently a Stegner Fellow (2019-2021)
Unique among writing programs, Stanford offers ten two-year Wallace Stegner fellowships each year, five in fiction and five in poetry. All the fellows in each genre convene weekly in a 3-hour workshop with faculty For the 2019-2021 Fellowship, Hieu Minh Nguyen (poetry ’19) joins a legacy of The MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson alumni and faculty. Former Stegner Fellows include: Chiyuma Elliott (poetry ’10), Helen Hooper (fiction ’09), Keith Ekiss (poetry ’12) as well as several writers who later became faculty members, including Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Lan Samantha Chang, Stacey D’Erasmo, Kirstin Valdez Quade, Alan Shapiro and Monica Youn.
Congratulations, Hieu!
