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Aram Mrjoian Nonfiction, Fiction Biography Biography Aram Mrjoian is the editor-in-chief of The Rumpus and a 2022 Creative Armenia-AGBU Fellow. His debut novel, Waterline, is forthcoming with Harper Via in 2025. Aram has previously worked as an editor at the Chicago Review of Books, the Southeast Review, and TriQuarterly. He is the editor of the anthology We Are All Armenian: Voices from the Diaspora published by the University of Texas Press (March 2023). His writing has appeared in The

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

Cynthia Wolfer, RN, MSN, CNEcl Clinical Instructor of Nursing Phone: 253-535-8559 Email: wolfercb@plu.edu Office Location: Ramstad Hall - 328 Professional Biography Education M.S.N., University of North Carolina, 1987 B.S.N., Russell Sage College Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Adult Health Biography For over thirty five years I have been a Registered Nurse and I have had a variety of nursing jobs caring for Adult Medical-Surgical patients. What I love about being a nurse is that there are so

(Blackboard) Teacher Certification, 2009 Certificate in Mixed Methods Education Sciences, 2017 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Innovation and Technology in Education Instructional Design, Learning Environments Organizational Change Content Integration Science and Engineering Practices Programs: FYEP, BAE, MAE, ARC Biography Dr. Kim has been involved with the work of teacher preparation at PLU since 2005 – teaching, mentoring, and designing programs and certificates. She joined as full-time faculty in 2018

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

Writing Teachers Nominee, 2020 Frontier OPEN Long List, 2020 First Pages Prize Short List, 2020 Pushcart Prize Nominee, 2019 Walter Dean Myers Award Nominee, 2018 Interests Fog in the trees somewhere outside Bellingham, 90s nostalgia and true crime podcasts, fanfiction, watching scary movies with his partner and their son who has four legs because he's actually a cat, that one Hozier lyric about felling trees and pyres of enemies. Fun Facts Can spin fire and fight with swords on stage

Echoes: Eros and the Victorian Double Poem" in "Love Among the Poets: The Victorian Poets of Intimacy" (Ohio University Press 2024) "Poetry's Lyric Call" in "Cultivating Vocation in Literary Studies" (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) "Cultivating Vocation in Literary Studies", co-editor with Erin VanLaningham (Edinburgh University Press 2022) "'A Word of Song': Reverberations of the Psalms in Christina Rossetti's Roundels," - Literature and Theology (June 2022) "Christina Rossetti's Ghosts, Soul

Mara Finkelstein Lecturer - Cello Phone: 253-535-7602 Email: finkelm@plu.edu Biography Biography Mara Finkelstein studied cello at the Gnessin College of Music and the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow before coming to the U.S. in 1989. Ms. Finkelstein was Principal Cellist of the Moscow Symphony Orchestra and the only woman in the all men orchestra. She toured in Europe as a member of the New European Strings, and recently played with that group in a series of virtual recordings during the

with teaching and is appreciative of the opportunity to write a new chapter of her life at Pacific Lutheran University.

of geoduck clams in Puget Sound, WA." Journal of Shellfish Research Vol. 31(3), 2012: 1-13. Behrens, M.D. & K.D. Lafferty. "Temperature and food availability associations with geographic variation in the diet of opaleye (Girella nigricans)." PLOS One Vol. 7(9), 2012: e45901. Smith, K.F., Yabsley, M.J., Sanchez, S., Casey, C.L., Behrens, M.D., Daszak, P., Hernandez, S.M. and Foulsham, P.. "Salmonella isolates from wild caught Tokay Geckos (Gekko gecko) imported to the U.S. from Indonesia." Vector