Stegner Fellow Reading with Paul Tran and Georgina Beaty

Paul Tran is the author of the debut poetry collection, All the Flowers Kneeling, forthcoming from Penguin Poets in February 2022. Their work appears in The New Yorker, The Nation, Good Morning America, and elsewhere, including the Lionsgate movie Love Beats Rhymes with Azealia Banks, Common, and Jill Scott. Paul is the first Asian American since 1993—and first transgender poet ever—to win the Nuyorican Poets Café Grand Slam, placing top 10 at the Individual World Poetry Slam and top 2 at the National Poetry Slam. A recipient of the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize, as well as fellowships from the Poetry Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, Paul is a Visiting Faculty in Poetry at Pacific University MFA in Writing and a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University.

Georgina Beaty’s fiction has been published in The Walrus, New England Review, The Puritan and The Fiddlehead, and her collection of short stories, The Party is Here, is forthcoming from Freehand Books. She holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia, and has worked across Canada as an actor and playwright. She grew up in the Rockies and currently lives in Tkaronto/Toronto.