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Visiting Lecturer of Social Work | Department of Social Work | connie.ladenburg@plu.edu | 253-535-7296

Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Education | Music | justin.lader@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | Justin Lader received his PhD in music and human learning from The University of Texas at Austin, Master’s degree in viola performance with emphasis in string pedagogy from the University of Oregon, and Bachelor’s of Music from the Oberlin Conservatory.

Acquisitions Coordinator | Library | lamperaa@plu.edu | 253-536-5026

Lecturer - Harp | Music | elizabeth.landis@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | Elizabeth Landis is a much sought-after harpist in the greater Seattle and Tacoma area.

Lead Baker | Campus Restaurants - Dining at PLU | umpstekm@plu.edu | 253-535-7390

Admission Counselor | Office of Admission | jlansang@plu.edu | 253-535-7152

Assistant Dean | School of Education | larsenmj@plu.edu | 253-535-8456 | Mary Jo earned both her B.A.

Clinical Instructor of Nursing | School of Nursing

Associate Professor of Biology | Department of Biology | laurienl@plu.edu | 253-536-5025

Fiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | April Ayers Lawson is the author of Virgin and Other Stories, which was named a Best Book of the Year by The Irish Times and Vice, and a Best Foreign Book of the Year by Spain’s Qué Leer Magazine.  Virgin and Other Stories has been (or will be) translated into German, Spanish, Norwegian, and Italian.  She has received The Plimpton Prize for Fiction, as well as a writing fellowship from The Corporation of Yaddo.   Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, Die Welt, ZYZZYVA, and Oxford American, among others, has been cited as notable in Best American Short Stories, featured by Huffington Post, and anthologized in The Unprofessionals: New American Writing from The Paris Review.  Her nonfiction has appeared in Der Spiegel, Granta, Vice, and Neue Zürcher Zeitung Magazine, and been named a Most Popular Read of the Year by Granta.  She has taught in the creative writing programs at Emory University and the University Of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and now teaches at Clemson University. Mentor.  Workshops and classes in fiction. Statement: “The most important thing your writing can be is interesting.  And by that I mean interesting to you, because when you’re deeply engaged in the process, the work sparks alive.  This level of engagement involves writing into places you didn’t expect and opening to the risk of surprise.