Event Details
Stephen Dunn Visiting Writers Series
featuring Stockton University Faculty Jacob Camacho and Nathan Long + Alumni Liz Myers and Jibreel Tompkins
Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Time: 11:20 AM-12:35 PM EDT
Location: Stockton University Galloway Campus, Multicultural Center, OR online via Zoom. Click the link below.
About the Featured Readers
Born and raised in Guåhan, Islan Marianas, Jacob Camacho is a CHamoru writer, educator, and activist. He received his Creative Writing MFA from Rutgers University, Camden and is an alumni of the University of Guam and UCLA’s Extension Writers Program. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Stockton University. Previously a Lead Teacher at All Things Are Possible Foundation in Willingboro, NJ, he is a Co-Founder of the Move Mountains Project, 501(c)(3) in San Luis, Colorado. He is a former English Teacher at Philadelphia’s alternative high school, CADI, and Academic Coach for NJ’s YMCA of Burlington & Camden Counties. His short story, “Proclamation,” appears in University of Guam’s Storyboard 18, Half-Moon in Philadelphia’s MadHouse Magazine Volume 4 and his poem, Kao siña hao fumino’ Chamoru?, in University of Hawaii Press’ Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia. Camacho is currently working on the manuscript for his first book, TalkBoy.
Nathan Long teaches creative writing, with a focus on fiction, as well as literature courses and courses for the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Minor. His interests are in Contemporary American and Global Literature, flash fiction, short story cycles, and QUILTBAG literature and culture. He has published stories and essays in over 100 anthologies and journals including The Sun, Tin House, Glimmer Train, Crab Orchard Review, and Story Quarterly. His story “Reception Theory” won the 2017 international OWT Story Prize and “Arctic” won the 2015 international Open Road fiction award. Seven other stories have been finalists for Glimmer Train short story contests and three have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Long’s essay for NPR’s “This I Believe” series, about losing his dog Gracie, is available on line.
Class of ‘23 graduate, Board of Trustees distinguished fellow, and spring ‘24 commencement speaker, Liz Myers is a literature program alumna known for her leadership within The Argo and Stockpot Literary Magazine during her time at Stockton. Her areas of specialty include creative nonfiction, feminist magical realism and horror, and literary criticism, for which she has been awarded the Betsey Stockton and Feyt/Armstrong awards.
Jibreel Tompkins is a ‘25 graduate of the LITT program.
About the Stephen Dunn Visiting Writers series
Named after the late Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and distinguished professor emeritus of Creative Writing Stephen Dunn, the series is sponsored by: Murphy Writing of Stockton University; the William T. Daly School of General Studies; The Literature program in the School of Arts & Humanities; and Stockton Board of Trustee member Madeleine Deininger.
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