Faculty Leaders

Adam Johnson

associate professor of English

Adam Johnson, associate professor of English, came to Stanford as a Stegner Fellow in 1999 and continued as a Marsh McCall Lecturer, a Draper Lecturer and a Jones Lecturer in the Program in Creative Writing. A Whiting Writers’ Award winner, his fiction has appeared in Esquire, Harper's, Playboy, Paris Review, Tin House and Best American Short Stories. He is the author of Emporium, a short-story collection, and the novel Parasites Like Us, which won a California Book Award. His novel The Orphan Master's Son is forthcoming from Random House. His books have been translated into French, Dutch, Japanese, Catalan, German, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew, Polish, Portuguese and Serbian. Johnson is a 2010 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow. At Stanford, Professor Johnson teaches courses in fiction, creative non-fiction, the novel salon and the graphic novel.