Dāshaun Washington

Dāshaun Washington is a poet. His work has appeared in New England Review, Poetry magazine, The Nation, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. He has received support from Yaddo, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Lighthouse Works, the Ucross Foundation, The Watering Hole, and other organizations. He was a 2021 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest runner-up and a 2021 Indiana Review 1/2 K Prize finalist. 

Currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, where he was previously a Wallace Stegner Fellow, Washington lives in San Francisco.