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program at PLU.  His scholarship in entrepreneurship and innovation coupled with substantial executive-level industry experience and business ownership align with his teaching topics and create opportunities for students to engage both the theory and application of management in unique and powerful ways.  Leveraging techniques and frameworks developed through research and practice, Dr. Brown engages students to apply their academic knowledge to live projects in the region and around the world.  This

the hope that you will develop enduring strategies for maintaining your writing practice long after completing the program. Being a writer takes time, patience, and practice, there’s no universal formula for finding your voice and improving your craft. As you progress, my focus remains on process and revision, with the understanding that eventually you’ll likely have to negotiate your work’s intentions more directly with readers, editors, and critics. No matter your artistic and professional goals

., Magura, B., Pratt-Sitaula, B., Thompson, D., and Whitman, J.. "Teachers on the Leading Edge: An Earth Science Teacher Professional Development Program Featuring Pacific Northwest Geologic Hazards." Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs - Annual Meeting Vol. 41, 2009: p. 195. Butler, R.F., Granshaw, F.D., Groom, R., Hedeen, C., Johnson, J., Magura, B., Pratt-Sitaula, B., Thompson, D., and Whitman, J.. "Translating Earth-Scope Science for Middle School Teachers and Students in the

been a finalist for the National Poetry Series.  Her memoir, Driving With Dvorak, was published in 2010 by the University of Nebraska Press.  She is professor emerita at the University of Delaware, where she taught for 27 years and directed the Poets in the Schools program. She was poet laureate of Delaware from 2001-07.  She now lives with her husband, Jerry Beasley, in Traverse City, Michigan. Mentor.  Workshops and classes in poetry and nonfiction. Statement:  “Ive taught many kinds of workshops

in 2024, Dr. Johnson served as Professor of English, Chair of the Department of English and Communication, and Director of the Honors Program at The College of St. Scholastica. Previously, she taught as a visiting professor at University of Puget Sound and Valparaiso University, where she also held a Lilly Postdoctoral Fellowship. Dr. Johnson earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington in 2005 with a dissertation titled The Ethics of Epiphany in Wordsworth, Tennyson, Barret

and men to tell their own stories through writing. Davis currently lives in the Ozarks, where he teaches for the Program in Creative Writing & Translation at the University of Arkansas. Raised by the Pacific Northwest, he also serves as Poetry Editor for Iron Horse Literary Review.  Mentor. Workshops and classes in poetry. Statement: I encourage writers to keep sight of what comes next. Yes, we will work on sharpening our craft through intensive practice with technique and through a study of

, The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts for Your Writing Practice (coauthored with Martha Silano), Fire on Her Tongue: An Anthology of Contemporary Women’s Poetry, and Demystifying the Manuscript: How to Create of Book of Poems (coauthored with Susan Rich). She lives in a sleepy seaside town where she is an avid paddleboarder and hiker. She teaches at Pacific Lutheran University’s low-res MFA program, the Rainier Writing Workshop. Kelli  is the cohost of the poetry series “Poems You Need” with Melissa

. She is the author of DEED (Wesleyan University Press, 2024) and Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (Milkweed Editions, 2020), a Minnesota Book Award and CLMP Firecracker Award finalist, and winner of the 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She teaches at the Rainier Writing Workshop, the low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University. Mentor.  Workshops and classes in poetry. Statement: In his lecture A Seduction: Metaphor and the Come Hither, Tim Seibles writes “If poetry is a fire in the

chairing the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. Gregson was honored with the Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2005, the Faculty Award for Excellence in Mentoring in 2011, and the PLU Mortar Board Society “Top Prof” award in 2017.

, Environmental Economics, Natural Resource Economics, Behavioral Economics, Strategic Behavior, Econometrics Biography Ryan Swartzentruber is a dedicated educator and researcher with a passion for environmental policy and experimental economics. He strives to engage students by applying microeconomic theory to real-world challenges and encouraging them to tackle complex issues. Ryan joined Pacific Lutheran University in 2024 after completing his Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee. He has taught a variety