Faculty Presentation: Alexander Chee, George Abraham, Miriam Klein-Stahl
Tuesday, June 23, 2026
5-7 PM
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
Join us for a summer faculty reading and artist talk with writers Alexander Chee and George Abraham, and artist Miriam Klein Stahl.
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About Our Speakers
Alexander Chee is a novelist and essayist, most recently the author of the essay collection How To Write An Autobiographical Novel. A 2021 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2021 United Artists Fellow, he is previously a recipient of the Whiting Award and a NEA Fellowship in Prose, and residencies from MacDowell, Civitella Ranieri and Hawthornden Castle. A contributing editor for The New Republic and an editor at large for VQR, his stories and essays have appeared recently in T Magazine, Harpers, and Harper’s Bazaar. He is a professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College and is at work on a new novel.
George Abraham (they/هو) is a Palestinian American poet, essayist, critic, and performance artist. They are the author of When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America (Haymarket, 2026) and Birthright (Button Poetry, 2020), which won the Arab American Book Award and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. They are the Editor-at-Large of Mizna, and co-editor of HEAVEN LOOKS LIKE US: Palestinian Poetry (Haymarket, 2025), which was long-listed for the Palestine Book Award. They are a graduate of Northwestern’s Litowitz MFA+MA program, and teach at Amherst College as a Writer-in-Residence.
Miriam Klein Stahl is a Bay Area diasporist artist, educator, activist and the New York Times-bestselling illustrator of Rad American Women A-Z and Rad Women Worldwide. In addition to her work in printmaking, drawing, sculpture, paper-cut and public art, she is also the co-founder of the Arts and Humanities Academy at Berkeley High School where she’s taught since 1995. As an artist, she follows in a tradition of making socially relevant work, creating portraits of political activists, misfits, radicals and radical movements. As an educator, she has dedicated her teaching practice to address equity through the lens of the arts. Her work has been widely exhibited and reproduced internationally.
