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  • Nonfiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | 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).

    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

  • Director of Chinese Studies Program | The PLU Chinese Studies Program | manfredi@plu.edu | 253-535-7216 | Paul Manfredi’s research concerns modern and contemporary Chinese poetry and art, modernism, and urban culture in China.

    : A Visual-Verbal Dynamic (Cambria Press 2014) : View Book Biography Paul Manfredi’s research concerns modern and contemporary Chinese poetry and art, modernism, and urban culture in China. His articles have appeared in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese, and Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, while his translations have appeared in various collections of modern and contemporary Chinese poetry. He now lives with his family in Bellevue, WA, a

  • Nonfiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Barrie Jean Borich is the author of Apocalypse, Darling (2018), which was short-listed for a Lambda Literary Award.

    celebrates shifting topographies as well as human bodies in motion, not only across water and land, but also through life.”  Borich’s previous book, My Lesbian Husband (2000), won the American Library Association Stonewall Book Award. Borich’s essays have been anthologized in: Isherwood in Transit; Critical Creative Writing; Waveform: Twenty-First Century Essays by Women; and in After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays, and have been cited in Best American Essays and Best American Non

  • Professor Emerita and Faculty Fellow in Humanities | Religion | killenpo@plu.edu | Patricia O’Connell Killen, professor emerita, taught courses in the Department of Religion and in the International Core at PLU from 1989 through 2010.

    ) : View Book Selected Letters of A.M.A. Blanchet, Bishop of Walla Walla and Nesqualy, 1846-1879. Edited with Roberta Stringham Brown. (Seattle: University of Washington Press 2013) : View Book Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Northwest: The None Zone. Primary Editor. Lanham (MD: Alta Mira Press 2004) : View Book Finding Our Voices: Women, Wisdom and FaithFaith (NY: Crossroad Publishing Company 1997) : View Book The Art of Theological Reflection (NY: Crossroad Publishing 1994) : View Book

  • Professor of Theatre | Theatre & Dance | smithtt@plu.edu | 253-535-7323 | Tom Smith is a playwright, director and improviser.  His plays are published by Samuel French, Playscripts, and YouthPLAYS, among others.  Monologues from his plays appear in five collections of works, and his short plays have been produced internationally.  His work has been enjoyed by audiences in cities across the U.S., including Seattle, Kansas City, San Francisco, and Chicago, as well as in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.  Tom is also the author of The Other Blocking: Teaching and Performing Improvisation(Kendall Hunt) and articles and reviews for Theatre Journal, Theatre Topics, The Players Journal, and several resource books.  Tom graduated from Whitman College with a BA in Dramatic Arts and Secondary Education certification, and earned his MFA in Directing from University of Missouri-Kansas City.  He is a proud member of the Dramatist’s Guild and Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. .

    Acting Selected Publications Autumn's Child (monologue) in Audition Arsenal for Women in their 20s, Smith & Kraus A Christmas Carol, published by YouthPLAYS Dangerous, published by Playscripts Drinking Habits, published by Playscripts Drinking Habits 2: Caught in the Act, published by Playscripts End of the Meal in 105 Five-Minute Plays for Study and Performance, Smith & Kraus, Inc. ESL, published by YouthPLAYS Gray, published by Original Works Online Johnny and Sally Ann, published by YouthPLAYS

  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Music - Piano | Music | erhsuan.li@plu.edu | 253-535-7647 | Praised by the New York Concert Review as having “played with astonishing maturity and flair,” Dr.

    included teaching applied lessons and keyboard musicianship courses to music majors and non-music majors, as well as working as a collaborative pianist in all capacities, including vocal and instrumental studio pianist, symphonic band pianist, contemporary music ensemble keyboardist, and pianist for opera and musical productions. He is an esteemed saxophone accompaniment specialist, who has performed in multiple faculty and guest recitals, including Montana State University, Tennessee State University

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  • Editor in Residence, Poetry | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Stephen Corey is the author of four full-length collections of poetry, the latest being There Is No Finished World (White Pine Press, 2003), and six chapbooks.

    nonfiction and poetry. Statement: “I am an editor because I am a writer; I am a writer because at some point–I believe I was in my mid-twenties–simply taking in the world no longer seemed enough, and because I have crazy but loving dreams of whacking a few readers in the gut the way my favorite writers have whacked me. I try to edit via compassionate insinuation [from the Latin insinuare: to introduce by windings and turnings], doing my best to enter the intention and spirit of a piece to determine how

  • Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Rigoberto González is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Unpeopled Eden, which won the Lambda Literary Award and the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and eleven books of prose, including Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, which received the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.

    poetry, the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, The Poetry Center Book Award, and the Barnes & Noble Writer for Writers Award, he is contributing editor for Poets & Writers Magazine and writes a monthly column for NBC-Latino online.  Currently, he is professor of English at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey, and the inaugural Stan Rubin Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the Rainier Writing Workshop.  In 2015, he received The Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime

  • Nonfiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Sherry Simpson is the author of Dominion of Bears: Living with Wildlife in Alaska, which received the 2015 John Burroughs Medal for a distinguished book of nature writing, and two collections of essays, The Accidental Explorer: Wayfinding in Alaska and The Way Winter Comes, which won the inaugural Chinook Literary Prize.

    , which received the Benjamin Franklin Award in the travel essay and photography category.  Her work has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including Orion, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, Superstition Review, AQR, and Bellingham Review.  Her essays have appeared in such anthologies as On Nature: Great Writers on the Great Outdoors, American Nature Writing, The Fourth Genre, Living Blue in the Red States, and In Fact, the best of Creative Nonfiction journal.  She has received the Andrés Berger

  • Fiction, Nonfiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Matt Young  is the author of the memoir, Eat the Apple (Bloomsbury, 2018), and the novel, End of Active Service (Bloomsbury, 2024).

    . Mentor: Workshops and classes in fiction and nonfiction Statement: Workshops should be places of inquiry where we learn to articulate the why behind our aesthetic values and preferences as writers. In my classrooms I work to foster an environment where students can explore their unique voices and engage with the craft that underlies their work without the pressure of polished products. I encourage my students to experiment with different styles and forms of writing, to read widely and beyond their