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Sarah Nelson Community Director for Campus Life Operations she/her Phone: 253-535-8449 Email: nelsonsl@plu.edu Professional Biography Education Bachelors, Music, Pacific Lutheran University, 2022 Responsibilities Primary reception for the RLIF inbox, phone calls and walk-ins for Campus Life Office Oversee incoming Living Plans and Learning Community Applications for all students Track and oversee room moves, housing cancellations, housing requests, etc. Help coordinate the Room Selection

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

of Vocal Studies, Teaches Applied Voice Lessons, Vocal Pedagogy, Solo Vocal Literature, Diction, Directs Opera Production/Workshop Accolades Production Grant from the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music in New York, NY Regency Scholarship Grant, Pacific Lutheran University Biography James Brown enjoys an eclectic career of singing, teaching, stage direction and conducting. James is the Chair of Vocal Studies at Pacific Lutheran University where he directs the opera and oversees a large voice program

Steven Starkovich Professor Emeritus of Physics Email: starkovich@plu.edu Status:Emeritus Professional Biography Education Ph.D., Physics, University of Victoria, British Columbia, 1993 M.S., Educational Policy and Management, University of Oregon, 1985 B.A., Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, 1976 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Mathematical Physics General Relativity Biography Steven P. Starkovich earned his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Victoria with research in general

Cassio Vianna Assistant Professor of Music; Director of Jazz Studies he/his Phone: 253-535-7760 Email: cassio.vianna@plu.edu Office Location:Mary Baker Russell Music Center - Room 112 Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon - Fri: By Appointment Professional Biography Education D.A., Jazz Studies, University of Northern Colorado, 2017 M.M., Western Oregon University, 2011 B.M., Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2003 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Jazz Composition and Arranging Jazz Piano

Renee Simms Fiction, Nonfiction Biography Biography Renee Simms, J.D., MFA, is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, a John Gardner Fiction Fellowship at Bread Loaf, and fellowships from Ragdale and Vermont Studio Center. She’s an associate professor of African American Studies at University of Puget Sound and teaches with the Rainier Writing Workshop, Pacific Lutheran’s low-residency MFA program. Her debut story collection Meet Behind Mars was a Foreword

Robert P. Ericksen Kurt Mayer Chair, Emeritus Email: ericksrp@plu.edu Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Professor of History Education Ph.D., University of London, 1980 M.A., State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1969 B.A., Pacific Lutheran University, 1967 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Holocaust Modern Germany Modern Europe Western Civilization Books Complicity in the Holocaust: Churches and Universities in Nazi Germany (Cambridge University Press 2012) : View Book

Shelly Myers Lecturer - Oboe she/her Phone: 253-535-7602 Email: myerssd@plu.edu Biography Biography Shelly Myers currently serves as Lecturer of oboe at Pacific Lutheran University and holds the second oboe position in the Olympia Symphony Orchestra. She earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Lethbridge, and a Master of Music degree from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, where she also pursued doctoral studies. Prior to moving to Seattle, she served

Jennifer Foerster Poetry Biography Biography Jennifer Elise Foerster is the author of three books of poetry, Leaving Tulsa (2013), Bright Raft in the Afterweather (2018), and The Maybe-Bird (2022), and served as the Associate Editor of When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry. She is the recipient of a NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, a Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellowship, and

torrin a. greathouse Poetry Biography Biography torrin a. greathouse is a transgender cripple-punk poet and essayist. She received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota. Her work has been featured in Poetry Magazine, The Rumpus, the New York Times Magazine, Ploughshares, and The Kenyon Review. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Effing Foundation for Sex Positivity, The Ragdale Foundation, and the University of Arizona Poetry Center