The Stephen Dunn Visiting Writer Series continues in the spring of 2026 with two free events at Stockton University.
The first will feature nonfiction writer Dionne Ford, the author of the memoir “Go Back and Get It,” which was a finalist for the Hurston Wright Foundation Legacy Award. Ford is also the co-editor of the anthology “Slavery’s Descendants: Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation.” She will sign copies of her books during her reading will take place at 11:20 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 11 in the Campus Center Theatre.
The second reading of the spring semester will take place at 11:20 a.m., Wednesday, March 18, in the Campus Center Theatre and will feature Stockton Literature faculty members Jacob Camacho and Nathan Long, alongside recent Stockton graduates.
Long teaches creative writing, with a focus on fiction, as well as literature courses and courses for the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies minor. He has published stories and essays in over 100 anthologies and journals including The Sun, Tin House, Glimmer Train, Crab Orchard Review and Story Quarterly. His story “Reception Theory” won the 2017 international OWT Story Prize and “Arctic” won the 2015 international Open Road fiction award.
Born and raised in Guåhan, Mariana Islands, Camacho is a CHamoru writer, educator and activist. His short story, “Proclamation,” appears in University of Guam’s Storyboard 18, and another story “Half-Moon” appears in Philadelphia’s MadHouse Magazine Volume 4. Camacho is currently working on the manuscript for his first book, “TalkBoy.”
Both readings will take place at the university’s Multicultural Center. Community members and Stockton students, alumni, faculty and staff are encouraged to attend both free events.
The Stephen Dunn Visiting Writing Series is named after the late Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and distinguished professor emeritus of Creative Writing at Stockton. It’s sponsored by Murphy Writing of Stockton University, the William T. Daly School of General Studies, the Literature program in the School of Arts & Humanities and Board of Trustees member Madeleine Deininger, ’80.
For more information, email murphywriting@stockton.edu.
