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Stan Sanvel Rubin Founding Director Biography Biography Stan Sanvel Rubin is founding director of the Rainier Writing Workshop at PLU.  He served for over twenty years as Director of the Brockport Writers Forum and Videotape Library (SUNY), a multi-faceted literary arts program.  He holds the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.  His most recent book of poetry is There. Here. (Lost Horse Press, 2013).  Other books include The Post-Confessionals, a collection of his interviews

Sequoia Nagamatsu Fiction Biography Biography Sequoia Nagamatsu is the author of the national bestselling novel, How High We Go in the Dark (William Morrow, 2022), a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and the story collection, Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone (Black Lawrence Press, 2016), silver medal winner of the 2016 Foreword Reviews Indies Book of the Year Award. His work has appeared in publications such as Conjunctions, The Southern Review, ZYZZYVA, Tin House, Iowa Review, Lightspeed

Julie Winters Web Support Coordinator Phone: 253-535-7436 Email: winterjl@plu.edu Office Location:Printing & Mail Services Status:Working Hybrid Professional Biography Education A.A., Business, Tacoma Community College, 1983 Biography 1987-1988 Night Custodian in the Library. 1989 Housekeeper in Tingelstad. Came back in 1999 as a Custodian for a few months and then Shipping/Receiving Manager in the bookstore when it was in the University Center. Joined the staff of Marketing & Communication in

Christian Gerzso Resident Assistant Professor Phone: 253-535-7491 Email: christian.gerzso@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 220H Office Hours: (On Campus) M & W: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Professional Biography Education Ph.D., English Literature, New York University, 2012 B.A., English Language and Literature, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), 2004 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Late nineteenth and twentieth-century British literature and culture Multidisciplinary

Justin St. Germain Fiction, Nonfiction Biography Biography Justin St. Germain is the author of Bookmarked: Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, part of IG Publishing’s Bookmarked series, and the memoir Son of a Gun (Random House, 2013), which won the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and was named a best book of the year by Amazon, Publishers Weekly, Salon, Library Journal, and others. His nonfiction and fiction have appeared in The New York Times, The

J. Murphy-Mancini Paul Fritts Endowed Chair; Assistant Professor of Music, Organ he/him/his Email: jjm@plu.edu Professional Biography Education Doctor of Philosophy, Composition, University of California, San Diego, 2019 Master of Music, Historical Performance, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, 2014 Bachelor of Music, Composition and Organ Performance, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, 2014 Bachelor of Art, Philosophy, Oberlin College, 2013 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Applied organ lessons Class

Jonathan M. Rizzardi Visiting Assistant Professor of Education They/Them Phone: 301-788-8270 Email: rizzardi@plu.edu Professional Biography Education Ph.D., Theatre History and Performance Studies, University of Washington, ABD M.A.T., Secondary English & Theatre, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, 2013 B.A., English, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, 2012 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Theatre History and Performance Studies Arts Integration & Arts Education Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies

Kwong-Tin (K.T.) Tang Professor Emeritus of Physics Phone: 253-535-7539 Email: tangka@plu.edu Status:Emeritus Professional Biography Education Postdoctoral Study, Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley & Harvard University Ph.D., Physics - Dissertation: "Elastic and Reactive Scattering in the (H, H2) System", Columbia University, 1965 M.A., Mathematics - Thesis: "Random Walk and Diffusion Processes", University of Washington, Seattle, 1959 B.S., Engineering Physics, University of

Steven Benham Professor Emeritus Email: benhamsr@plu.edu Professional Biography Education Ph.D., Geology, Indiana University, 1979 M.A., Geology, Indiana University, 1971 B.S., Geology, Washington State University, 1968 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Stratigraphy Sedimentation Paleontology Oceanography Biography Dr. Steven R. Benham began his career at PLU in the fall of 1982. Steve grew up in rural Kitsap County, WA, attended Olympic Community College for two years, and then earned his

(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