Stadler Emerging Writer

Stadler Center for Poetry

Initiated in 2007 and modeled on the Stadler Fellowship, the Stadler Emerging Writer program offers poets who have recently completed their graduate work the chance to contribute to a thriving poetry center while providing time for the completion of a first book of poems. Like the Stadler Fellow, the Stadler Emerging Writer assists for twenty hours each week in the administration of the StadlerCenter or in the editing of West Branch, Bucknell’s nationally distinguished literary journal. The Emerging Writer also serves as an instructor and staff member in the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets in June. The stipend is $20,000.

The Stadler Emerging Writer currently is selected by invitation only; we do not accept applications for the position.

Stadler Emerging Writer, 2009-10: K. A. Hays

A native of southeast Pennsylvania, K. A. Hays is the author of Dear Apocalypse (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2009). Poems from the book appear or are forthcoming in Best American Poetry 2009, The Yale Anthology of Younger American Poetry, The Missouri Review, Best New Poets 2007, and Southern Review. Her verse translations and fiction have appeared in GulfCoast, Hudson Review, Fugue, and elsewhere. An MFA graduate of the literary arts program at Brown, she currently holds the Stadler Emerging Writer Fellowship.