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, he has published work in optimization, statistics and finance. His finance interests include financial asset valuation modeling and the unintended consequences of management and regulatory policy. He has authored more than seventy research and expository articles, and he has given more than 100 seminar and conference presentations. Prior to arriving at PLU in 2001, Professor Stuart spent 14 years at the University of Southern Mississippi, where he was a tenured full professor, teaching both

large, musical family with five siblings, Dr. Anna Jensen was primed to excel at the double bass—while also developing a remarkable capacity for intuiting the needs of diverse learners. She embodies that rare combination of extraordinary musician and dynamic teacher. Her passion for music translates to her deep involvement in education. In addition to instructing at the University of Puget Sound and Pacific Lutheran University, she is the Executive Director of the Tacoma Youth Symphony Association

Fellowship from the US/Japan Creative Artist Fellowship, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.  Where the Dead Pause and the Japanese Say Goodbye was a finalist for the 2016 PEN Open Book Award, the Indies Choice for Nonfiction and the Northern California Book Award for Creative Nonfiction.  Her novel, Picking Bones from Ash, published by Graywolf, was a finalist for the Saroyan Prize and the Paterson Prize.  Her new book, tentatively titled A Kernel In God’s Eye, explores her family’s one

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

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