After reading the impressive work of several candidates, we’re proud to announce that we’ve named Darius Stewart to our second annual Englert Nonfiction Fellowship.

Stewart is a third-year MFA candidate who will graduate this spring. He also holds an MFA in poetry from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin and is the author of three poetry chapbooks, including The Ghost the Night Becomes, 2013 winner of the Gertrude Poetry Chapbook Contest. His essays and poems can be found in Fourth Genre, storySouth, Appalachian Heritage, Callaloo, and others.