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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

. She is the author of DEED (Wesleyan University Press, 2024) and Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (Milkweed Editions, 2020), a Minnesota Book Award and CLMP Firecracker Award finalist, and winner of the 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She teaches at the Rainier Writing Workshop, the low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University. Mentor.  Workshops and classes in poetry. Statement: In his lecture A Seduction: Metaphor and the Come Hither, Tim Seibles writes “If poetry is a fire in the

was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford. Her poetry has recently appeared in POETRY London, The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review and other journals. Jennifer currently teaches at the Rainier Writing Workshop, the Institute of  American Indian Arts Continuing Education Program, and is the Literary Assistant to the U.S. Poet Laureate, Joy Harjo. She Foerster grew up living internationally, is of European (German/Dutch) and Mvskoke descent, and is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of

Biography A specialist in standard classical guitar as well as various early guitars and lutes, Elizabeth C. D. Brown is a very active performer in the United States. Highlights from recent seasons include performing at the Music by Women Festival, performing concertos by Vivaldi and Sierra and premiering a new work for guitar and orchestra with the Seattle Symphony. She has performed in operas by Purcell, Blow, Paisiello, Rossini and Verdi, as well as all of Monteverdi’s surviving operatic works

Ksenija Simić-Muller Chair of Mathematics she/her/hers Phone: 253-535-7034 Email: simicmka@plu.edu Office Location: Morken Center for Learning & Technology - 253 Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Professor of Mathematics Coordinator of Peace Scholars Program Education Ph.D., Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University, 2004 M.S., Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University, 2000 Undergraduate, Theoretical Mathematics, University of Belgrade, 1997 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Logic

Nonfiction Award and Sierra magazine’s Nature Writing Award, and she was a finalist for the Katharine Nason Bakeless Nonfiction Literary Publication Prize, sponsored by Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.  She is a professor of creative nonfiction writing in the Low-Residency MFA program at the University of Alaska Anchorage and serves on the faculty of the Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference. Mentor. Workshops and classes in nonfiction. Statement: “My favorite moment is when a writer who’s struggling with a

Heidi Brocious, Ph.D, MSW Chair, BSW Program she/her/hers Phone: 253-535-8707 Email: hbrocious@plu.edu Office Location: Xavier Hall - 104 Office Hours: (On Campus) Tue: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm (On Campus) Wed: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Curriculum Vitae: View my CV Professional Biography Education Ph.D., Social Work, University of Utah, 2013 Masters, Social Work, Walla Walla University, 1999 Bachelors, Education, University of Alaska , 1995 Biography One of the gifts I have gained from growing up near and

Development Workshops Committee, February-June, 2008 Diversity Advocate Award from the PLU Diversity Center, May, 2005 Outstanding Service Award from the PLU Volunteer Center, April, 2005 Biography Daniel Heath, also known as “Deej,” earned a B.A. in mathematics at St. Olaf College, where he was one of the first few math majors to study in the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics program. He went on to earn an M.A. and Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of California at Davis, and continued to

program at PLU.  His scholarship in entrepreneurship and innovation coupled with substantial executive-level industry experience and business ownership align with his teaching topics and create opportunities for students to engage both the theory and application of management in unique and powerful ways.  Leveraging techniques and frameworks developed through research and practice, Dr. Brown engages students to apply their academic knowledge to live projects in the region and around the world.  This

methods, and secondary literacy courses as well as various seminar courses in the undergrad and graduate-level teacher education programs. He is also the co-chair of the university Common Reading Program and is an active parent and community volunteer in his local school district where he sits on several committees to inform district policy and practice. He maintains an active and diverse publication and scholarship record covering topics of equity and racial equity, project- and problem-based