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October 18, 2010 Writers welcomed By Kari Plog ’11 During the summer, students in PLU’s Master in Fine Arts Creative Writing program gather on campus for their summer residency. As part of the three-year program, the students meet four times for short summer residencies of about 10 days each. Accomplished writers are not scarce in the program, but really, “The only requirement is to come as writers, published or not,” said Stan Rubin, MFA program director. (Photo by John Froschauer) It’s a time

Marissa Meyer ’04, Best-Selling Author Posted by: Zach Powers / January 4, 2016 January 4, 2016 By Zach Powers '10PLU Marketing & CommunicationsMarissa Meyer ’04 is the author of The New York Times best-selling series The Lunar Chronicles. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing and Children’s Literature at PLU and went on to receive her MFA in Publishing from Pace University. Meyer is one of 11 notable alumni currently featured in a billboard campaign that asks “what can you do

The Key to Innovation Innovation Studies program director Michael Halvorson discusses how understanding the past can unlock the future Posted by: Zach Powers / June 5, 2022 June 5, 2022 By Zach PowersResoLute EditorMichael Halvorson ’85 was a technologist before he was a historian. His PLU undergraduate degree is in computer science and he worked at Microsoft for the first 10 years of his career. He spent the next 15 years writing books about software and emerging technology. He went on to earn

told him he made my day. I got off the call, and then there was screaming – I think I frightened my daughter.” It was the first writing contest Andrews had ever entered. She is currently in her final year of PLU’s master of fine arts in creative writing degree program, the Rainier Writing Workshop, working hard to complete her final manuscript. Andrews was only notified of the contest one week prior to the submittal deadline. Realizing this was the only year she was eligible – it was only open to

Authors West is comprised of two components: 1) students reading novels from 15 featured authors and 2) a writer’s conference led by these featured authors. Author Leslye Walton ’04. [Photo courtesy of www.LeslyeWalton.com]Walton is the author of the Morris-nominated novel The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender. Walton received a B.A. in Education from PLU and earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Portland State University. She lives in Seattle, where she’s teaching reading and writing to

creative work, another for her scholarship and teaching. Even then I knew, of course, that the scholarly and the creative were false categories. A poem was as much the result of a poet’s deep critical study of poetry as it was the result of inspiration. In the same way, the best scholarship that I read at the time— Richard Poirier on Robert Frost, Helen Vendler on Wallace Stevens, and Carson herself on Paul Celan—had a dazzling creativity of insight that made scholarly writing as artful as the works

November 11, 2009 Poetry helps explain a complex world Rick Barot wasn’t looking for how to address worldly issues when he began writing poetry. “I think, like a lot of poets, I started in poetry having very self-serving reasons,” the PLU professor said. In college, it was therapeutic and very much an emotional release. But as he learned the craft and honed his own skills, the complexity of it and how poetry can be used in addressing ethical, even moral values became clear. “These days, I think

Anderson University Center in the Regency Room, at 6 p.m. Meyer ’04 last came to PLU in February for her official book release and signing party for Cress, her newest book in the series. Meyer graduated from PLU with a bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing in 2004. In a recent interview, Meyer said that a writing career requires self-motivation and discipline. “A career in writing requires a lot of self-motivation, and being able to stay ahead on your deadlines as you work through multiple rounds of

? Thanks to the maker movement and some creative minds, it isn’t. Pacific Lutheran University’s School of Education & Kinesiology is bringing that creative spirit to campus April 12 in the form of a hands-on workshop and free public lecture.The seventh annual Benson Lecture, “A Learning Revolution Goes to School: The Maker Movement,” will focus on the growing trend in which creators use so-called “makerspaces” and “fablabs” to invent and create products. More specifically, speakers will discuss how the

analytics, creative corporate brand development, and digital and social marketing.“Moving the program online allows students outside of the PLU commute range to benefit from world-class faculty who seek to prepare our MSMA students for rewarding careers in a rapidly growing professional field,” Mark Mulder, dean of the School of Business. “So whether a student lives in Portland, Oregon, Boise, Idaho, or Bozeman, Montana, the online program allows us to offer a unique learning opportunity.” This is the