Stephen Beachy

Adjunct Professor

Part-Time Faculty
Kalmanovitz Hall 302
(415) 422-6066

Biography

Stephen Beachy is a past winner of the Michener Award in fiction. He is the author of several novels and two novellas, including The Whistling Song, Distortion, Some Phantom/No Time Flat, boneyard, and Glory Hole. His work has also been published in High Risk 2, New York Times Magazine, Bomb, and Best Gay American Fiction 1996.

He's the prose editor of Your Impossible Voice and the translator of Mario Bellatin's novella Perpetual Law.

Expertise

  • Experimental fiction
  • Latin american fiction
  • Creative nonfiction

Education

  • Iowa Writers' Workshop, MFA in Creative Writing

Prior Experience

  • English Instructor, San Francisco City College (1995-1998)
  • Writing teacher for at-risk youth, Americorps Writerscorps (1994-1995)
  • Special Ed Teacher's Aide, San Francisco Unified School District (1994-1999)

Selected Publications

  • A translation of Mario Bellatin's PERPETUAL LAW, Deep Vellum, 2025

  • Beachy, S. (2017). Glory Hole. Tuscaloosa, AL: FC2

  • Beachy, S. (2006, 2013). Some Phantom/No Time Flat. Portland, OR: Verse Chorus Press.

  • Beachy, S. (2011). boneyard. Portland, OR: Verse Chorus Press.

  • Beachy, S. (1991). The Whistling Song. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.