Dāshaun Washington is a poet living in San Francisco and a 2023-2025 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. He is a 2021 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest runner-up and 2021 Indiana Review 1/2 K Prize finalist.

He has received support from Yaddo, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Lighthouse Works, Ucross Foundation, The Watering Hole, and beyond. His work has appeared in New England Review, Poetry, The Nation, Poem-a-Day, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere.

He is a graduate of Eastfield College, the University of Texas at Dallas, and the MFA for Poets & Writers at UMass Amherst.