Kim Stafford

Kim Stafford

Kim Stafford is a poet, essayist and director of the Northwest Writing Institute.

Kim Stafford, a poet and essayist, is the son of iconic Oregon poet William Stafford. He grew up in Oregon, Iowa, Indiana, California, and Alaska, following his parents as they taught and traveled through the West. He has taught at Lewis & Clark College since 1979, where he directs the Northwest Writing Institute, and teaches writing. He is also the Literary Executor of the William Stafford Archive. Kim has worked as an oral historian, letterpress printer, editor, photographer, teacher, and visiting writer at a host of small towns in the Pacific Northwest, and at colleges in New York, California, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. His work, Early Morning: Remembering My Father, William Stafford, won the 2003 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. Other titles include The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer’s Craft and A Thousand Friends of Rain: New & Selected Poems. His book, Having Everything Right, won a Western States Book Award. Of The Muses Among Us, a reviewer said, "[Stafford] is committed to the deep mystery and profound pleasure of writing. Unlike most books on the subject, it makes you want to pick up a pen and write. That is why this fine book will not grow old.” Stafford is the recipient of two creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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