Dāshaun Washington is a poet from Pittsfield, Massachusetts. His work has received support from the Wallace Stegner Fellowship, Yaddo, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Lighthouse Works, and Ucross Foundation. His poems have appeared in Poem-a-Day, New England Review, Poetry, The Nation, 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. He lives in San Francisco and is a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University.