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. Mentor. Workshops and classes in fiction and nonfiction. Statement: “One day in college, my favorite teacher came to the limit of her patience with me.  I had nearly suffocated a personal essay full of similes and metaphors and the word ‘I.’  She looked at my five drafts, handed them back and said, ‘You can do better than this. Just tell the truth.’  The simple rightness of this struck me like a blow to the head, and still does: it is a model of great teaching.  Of course I still commit, on a daily

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. “

free time I enjoy kayaking, golfing, hiking and simply enjoying the great outdoors. When not outside, you can find me starting a new crafting project, binging the newest crime show or playing with my dog Riley.

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

has a B.A. in Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting from the University of Washington Foster School of Business. He is a Certified Global Management Accountant (CGMA). He also has extensive experience teaching financial topics to a variety of audiences. He lives in his hometown of Tacoma and enjoys travel, cooking and exploring the great outdoors of the PNW.

, skills lab teaching Biography Dr. Woo is a dedicated nurse educator and family nurse practitioner with a profound commitment to patient education and health promotion. Early in her career, she discovered a passion for empowering patients through education, leading her to pursue a role as an FNP in primary care, where she could provide guidance and support to her patients. While working at Shoreline Community College, Dr. Woo found great joy in mentoring and inspiring future nurses. Her clinical

rocks in northern New Mexico. My undergraduate is from the University of Wisconsin, Madison where I worked as closely as an undergraduate can to Dr. Gordon Medaris on the Precambrian evolution of the Great Lakes region. Interests Design Wood Metal and Stone Work Politics Music Fun Facts The music component ranges from jazz through new wave into noise rock.

, 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

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