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Post-MFA MentorshipsThe Rainier Writing Workshop has now produced a critical mass of graduates, many of whom have published books of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction. These books were often the creative theses that the graduates completed in their final year in the program. For others, the creative thesis is a foundational iteration of work that will be developed into publication-worthy manuscripts. The Rainier Writing Workshop is committed to helping its alumni with their writing and
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Form Goes All the Way to Heaven, and the fall 2023 publication of Poem Bitten by a Man. After over a decade of teaching and writing in the San Francisco Bay Area, and eight years in Philadelphia, he’s now an Associate Professor of Poetry at the University of Virginia. An editorial board member of Poetry Daily, he lives in Charlottesville, where he makes books by hand for Albion Books, his micropress. Mentor. Workshops and classes in poetry, nonfiction, environmental writing. Statement: As a mentor
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Missoula Writing Collaborative, teaching classes on short story writing in high schools, and the 406 writing workshop. For many years he worked as a fishing guide on the Smith River and raised cattle on his family farm in Wisconsin. Mentor. Workshops and classes in fiction. Statement: “My success in the publishing world is limited, but my success as a writer has been boundless. Every book I have written has taken me on an adventure I would have thought impossible beforehand. I am a middle-aged man
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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
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Citation and DocumentationAcross academic fields, citation and documentation is a fundamental element of academic writing. As so much of academic work is built on the ideas of others, citation and documentation serves as a system of representing this “conversation” by clearly displaying which ideas were contributed by others and which ideas are original to the writer. Furthermore, citation and documentation styles (like MLA or Chicago) allow readers to find information about sources in easy
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returning to the orphanage where he was adopted as an infant, appearing live on Colombian television in his search for his biological family, reuniting with his biological mother, and being embraced by his biological family after 20 years apart. We recently connected with Taylor-Mosquera to learn more about his book, his experience writing and publishing it, and his future plans. Congrats on your new book. Tell us about it and the captivating title. The title of my memoir comes from meeting my
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Guardian, Tin House, New England Review, DIAGRAM, ZYZZYVA, and many other publications, as well as anthologies including Best of the West and The Pushcart Prize. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and has a BA and MFA from the University of Arizona. He lives in Oregon and teaches at Oregon State University and the Rainier Writing Workshop. Mentor. Workshops and classes in fiction and nonfiction I want your work to be your own, so my approach to advising individual students
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Magazine, and One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories, and has been listed as notable in Best American Non-Required Reading and the Best Horror of the Year. He has previously taught at The College of Idaho, Southern Illinois University, and the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. He currently teaches at St. Olaf College and resides in Minneapolis. He is at work on forthcoming novel, Girl Zero. More at http://SequoiaNagamatsu.com. Mentor. Workshops and classes in fiction. Statement
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Alexis Austin Director for Campus Life Engagement she/her Phone: 253-535-7068 Email: alexis.austin@plu.edu Office Location: Anderson University Center - 155 Professional Biography Education Master of Science, College Student Personnel, Western Illinois University Bachelor in Arts, English with an Emphasis on Creative Writing, Western Washington University Associate in Arts, Centralia College Biography Alexis began at PLU in Spring of 2022. Prior to PLU, Alexis most recently worked at the
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. CMarie Fuhrman is the author Camped Beneath the Dam. She is the Director of Poetry for Western Colorado University’s MFA in Creative Writing Program. Derek Sheffield grew up in the Willamette Valley and on the shores of the Salish Sea. He is the author of four books, including Not for Luck. For the past 20 years, he has taught nature writing at Wenatchee Valley College.
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