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-1945 American Literature Contemporary Canadian Literature Gender and Queer Studies Comparative Ethnic Studies Cultural Memory Studies Accolades Karen Hille Phillips Regency Advancement Award, presented my accepted paper “London Calling: Dislocated Kinship and Transatlanticism in Baldwin’s Just Above My Head (1979)” at this year’s International Baldwin Conference in Montpellier, France Biography Jenny James was born and raised in Michigan, the home of the Great Lakes and the Michigan Wolverines

that best suits their individual needs as both writers and students.  In engaging in a dialogue with them about the process, I try to make them aware that the act of writing takes time and that many of those who do live the writing life go through frustrations but also great joys. “

Carrie Ann Matyac, DNP, ARNP, FNP-BC Assistant Professor of Nursing Phone: 253-535-7694 Email: matyacca@plu.edu Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles FNP Lead Faculty Biography Dr. Matyac is a Family Nurse Practitioner and the Lead of the FNP Program at PLU SoN.  She practiced primarily in rural and community health (FQHC) settings throughout her 15-year career as a primary care provider.  Transitioning to a full-time academic focus, her goal is to impart the skill set and intricacies

Fleda Brown Poetry, Nonfiction Website: http://fledabrown.com/ Biography Biography Fleda Brown has published nine collections of poems.  The Woods Are On Fire: New & Selected Poems was published in 2017 by the University of Nebraska Press.  The book is in the Ted Kooser Contemporary Poetry Series.  Her work has twice appeared in The Best American Poetry and has won a Pushcart Prize, the Felix Pollak Prize, the Philip Levine Prize, and the Great Lakes Colleges New Writer’s Award, and has twice

, Accompanying Biography Russian-born pianist Oksana Ezhokina is Coordinator of Keyboard Studies and Associate Professor of Music at Pacific Lutheran University. An artist of great breadth and versatility, she appears frequently as guest recitalist and chamber musician on concert series across the United States and abroad. She has soloed with the Seattle Symphony, St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic in Russia, Tacoma Symphony, and performed in venues such as the Phillips Collection in Washington DC, Benaroya

it might be finished more completely and accurately. But I also edit via compassionate fiat, because some things just don’t work if you fail to handle them thoughtfully enough. In one sense, I suppose, there’s what a good editor must strive to be: thoughtful enough. And, I would argue, good writers must be so as well. Once I sat at a dinner gathering of writers and said, ‘For a piece of writing to be genuinely great, someone has to want to kill you for having written it.’ This isn’t true, of

Marie Mutsuki Mockett Fiction, Nonfiction Biography Biography Marie Mutsuki Mockett was born to an American father and Japanese mother, and graduated from Columbia University with a degree in East Asian Languages and Civilizations.  Her memoir, Where the Dead Pause and the Japanese Say Goodbye, examines grief against the backdrop of the 2011 Great East Earthquake, and Mockett’s family temple located 25 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power reactor.  Mockett’s awards include a

my application for an extended deadline for that fall. As soon as I returned to Colorado, I rushed my application and was accepted the next week. I was fortunate at the University of Montana to have many supportive professors from whom I learned a great deal about teaching and research. I worked with Dr. Frances Hill on my dissertation who I consider to be both a mentor and dear friend. It is through her honesty, gentle encouragement and support that I am doing something I truly enjoy doing

professional administrative positions throughout his career, including: Executive Director of the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus, Ohio; Executive Director of the Marble Cliff Chamber Players; and Executive Director of the MidAmerica Chamber Music Institute. As a performing artist, Cameron has performed as piano soloist and collaborative chamber musician throughout the United States, Canada, Russia, and the Far East. He is in great demand as a collaborative musician and appears regularly with the

she led the piano area and taught music theory. She has also been on the faculty of the Preparatory Division of the Peabody Institute and served as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Colorado. Interested in scholarship, Dr. Powers has presented on topics including managing performance anxiety, the influence of the great pianist Ricardo Viñes, and birdsong depictions in piano music. She is a proponent of new music, and has recently given the Latin American premiere of Mark Janello’s Concerto