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Brenda Miller Nonfiction Website: http://www.brendamillerwriter.com/ Biography Biography Brenda Miller edited the anthology The Next Draft: Inspiring Craft Talks from the Rainier Writing Workshop. Her most recent collection of her own work is A Braided Heart: Essays on Writing and Form. She is the author of five more essay collections, including An Earlier Life, which received the Washington State Book Award for Memoir, and she is the recipient of six Pushcart Prizes. Her book of collaborative

-hundred-year-old wheat farm in Nebraska, and the changing role of food, God, science, race and agriculture in society, and was a finalist for the Lukas Prize, awarded by Columbia and Harvard University’s Schools of Journalism.  She lives in San Francisco. Mentor. Workshops and classes in fiction and nonfiction. Statement:  I think of writing as intimately connected to seeing. I ask myself–and students–“What do you see that other people are missing?” As artists, we want to entertain and we want to be

Matt Young Fiction, Nonfiction Biography Biography Matt Young  is the author of the memoir, Eat the Apple (Bloomsbury, 2018), and the novel, End of Active Service (Bloomsbury, 2024). His stories and essays have appeared in TIME, Granta, Tin House, Catapult, and The Cincinnati Review among other publications. He is the recipient of fellowships from Words After War and The Carey Institute for Global Good, and teaches composition, literature, and creative writing at Centralia College in Washington

Global Studies Program, “Modern World History”. She also teaches in the First Year Experience Program, including Writing 101, focusing on Global Human Rights, and two History 190 courses, World History, and Modern Latin American History. She participates in the Residence Hall Learning Communities program, linking Writing 101 to Hong International Hall, and she piloted a program linking Writing 101 courses to 190 courses. She has taught study abroad courses for many years in Bolivia and Peru, and Cuba

Judith Kitchen Founding Director, In Memoriam Biography Biography Judith Kitchen (1941-2014)  was the co-founder of the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA program at PLU.  She is the author of four collections of essays, most recently The Circus Train (Ovenbird Books, 2014).  Her other collections are Half in Shade: Family, Photography, Fate and Distance and Direction (Coffeehouse Press) and Only the Dance (U. of South Carolina Press).  She is also the author of a novel, The House on Eccles Road

CHEM 410: Introduction to Research CHEM 420: Instrumental Analysis CHEM 487: Inorganic Synthesis CHEM 499: Capstone NSCI 350: STEM Education Partnership WRIT 101 – A writing course for students during their first semester at PLU. Dr. Munro taught WRIT 101: Writing and the Scientific Method in Fall 2017 for students in the STEM dorm and WRIT 101: Writing and the Scientific Method in Fall 2021. Selected Publications Food Chemistry: An Asynchronous Course Designed with Hands-On Experiments for

– one-shot 3-hour sessions, weekend retreats, and semester-long creative writing classes.  Sometimes students come into a workshop simply wanting a push, sometimes they need help finding their voices.  Everyone talks about ‘finding a voice,’ as if we all knew what this means.  We don’t.  I don’t.  What I can do in a workshop is to help students allow themselves to be clumsy, foolish, and sometimes nuts in their writing, while loosely hanging onto the reins.  What are the reins?  I don’t know that

Patty Sunderland Senior Student Financial Services Specialist Phone: 253-535-8029 Email: sunderpa@plu.edu Professional Responsibilities Federal Pell Grant Study Away programs Graduate Programs (MFA, Creative Writing, MA, Marriage and Family Therapy)

Patty Sunderland Senior Student Financial Services Specialist Phone: 253-535-8029 Email: sunderpa@plu.edu Professional Responsibilities Federal Pell Grant Study Away programs Graduate Programs (MFA, Creative Writing, MA, Marriage and Family Therapy)

enormous, centuries-old trees. I imagined myself at age 30, 40, 50: my identity composed of what I’d received from other people. A deep sense of liberation and relief washed over me: I was no longer solely responsible for the person I became. And I would never be truly alone, because I would carry those bits of other people within me. I discovered my vocation as a writer in that moment, though it would take me another eighteen years realize it. I remember that man’s words each time I enter a writing