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-Required Reading.  She is a professor in the Department of English-MFA/MA in Creative Writing and Publishing Program at DePaul University in Chicago, where she directs the LGBTQ Studies minor and edits Slag Glass City, a journal of the urban essay arts.  Mentor. Workshops and classes in nonfiction. Statement: “Writing is a process: part thought, part instinct, part wish. Every honest draft holds some glimmer of what your work might become. To write is to try, try, and try again, until we’re stunned to

(Southwest Minnesota State University, 1992) Environmental Design Research Association (Second place, doctoral dissertation, 1979) Numerous Who's Who and Who's Who among Women in America nominations Biography Academic Liaison on the board of Peace and Justice Studies, as well as teaching Peace Psychology. Faculty Director for joint PLU/Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber of Commerce Leadership program. Passion for teaching statistics/research methods, where I approach the classroom as a dynamic social

2024. Dr. Miller holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music Education from New Mexico State University, a Master of Music and a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Idaho. Her teaching career included all levels of music—kindergarten through graduate studies.  In addition, she served as Director of Music for several church congregations. As a published author of a music curriculum using hand chimes, Dr. Miller has served as a clinician for Schulmerich.  Her research interest was in musical neuroscience

Magazine, and One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories, and has been listed as notable in Best American Non-Required Reading and the Best Horror of the Year. He has previously taught at The College of Idaho, Southern Illinois University, and the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. He currently teaches at St. Olaf College and resides in Minneapolis. He is at work on forthcoming novel, Girl Zero. More at http://SequoiaNagamatsu.com. Mentor.  Workshops and classes in fiction. Statement

Matt Young Fiction, Nonfiction Biography Biography Matt Young  is the author of the memoir, Eat the Apple (Bloomsbury, 2018), and the novel, End of Active Service (Bloomsbury, 2024). His stories and essays have appeared in TIME, Granta, Tin House, Catapult, and The Cincinnati Review among other publications. He is the recipient of fellowships from Words After War and The Carey Institute for Global Good, and teaches composition, literature, and creative writing at Centralia College in Washington

Wendy Call Nonfiction Biography Biography Wendy Call (she/her) is the co-editor of the craft anthology Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide (Penguin, 2007) and the new annual Best Literary Translations (Deep Vellum, 2024). She wrote No Word for Welcome: The Mexican Village Faces the Global Economy (Nebraska, 2011), winner of the Grub Street Book Prize and International Latino book Award, and the chapbook Tilled Paths Through Wilds of Thought (MBR/K2, 2012). She has translated two

Engaged Inquiry 2021 • Surveillance Studies Network Early Career Researcher Award 2019 • Rhetorical Society of America Dissertation Award Professional Memberships/Organizations National Communication Association Rhetoric Society of America Surveillance Studies Network Biography Dr. Marnie Ritchie found the study of communication through collegiate debate at the University of Vermont, where she earned a B.A. in Philosophy in 2011. She then went on to earn a Master’s in Communication and Rhetorical

served as university provost from 2007 through 2010. In 2010 she accepted a position at Gonzaga University, her undergraduate alma mater, as professor of religious studies and Academic Vice President.  In 2019, having retired from Gonzaga, she returned to PLU as a faculty research fellow in the Division of Humanities. She is researching the practice of reflection in contemporary faith-inspired higher education and adjacent professional conversations under the auspices of a multi-year grant from the

Scenes for Brass Quintet by PLU Emeritus faculty member Dr. Jerry Kracht, was released in October, 2018. Dr. Lyman lives in Tacoma with his wife, son, and daughter. In his spare time, he enjoys trying to stay upright on his mountain bike, and being a disgruntled Red Sox fan. Dr. Lyman is an S.E. Shires performing artist.

Service Award – Pacific Lutheran University, 2011 Outstanding Reviewer Award - Western Academy of Management, 2009, 2011 Doctoral Student Teaching Excellence Award – University of Utah, 2009 Best Doctoral Student Paper – Western Academy of Management, 2008 Professional Memberships/Organizations Academy of Management Western Academy of Management Biography Dr. Brown teaches strategy, entrepreneurship and global management in the undergraduate program at PLU.  His scholarship in entrepreneurship and