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other narrative? How can this work that seems so different from what I want to do help me achieve my goals? In both workshops and mentorship settings I again stress the concept of community not only as etiquette that should be practiced out of respect within an academic environment, but also as a practice of a working writer. Nobody truly writes alone and nobody publishes alone. In addition to conversations about writing, I place a focus on how we should all strive to support writers and the larger
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similar to what you’re writing or reading literature that’s wildly dissimilar. I will also encourage you to identify the traditions and conversations with which your writing engages and to think of yourself as a contributor to literary trends and movements. How are you expanding on what has come before? What are you doing that’s traditional and what do you bring that’s new? Most of all, I’ll encourage you to revise your drafts. All writing improves through rewriting, and all writers discover what it
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international music production for Walt Disney Records. From 2003 to 2008, I taught at PLU as a Visiting Lecturer of Spanish, an experience which solidified my decision to pursue doctoral studies in Latin American literary and cultural studies. My research examines how Panamanians construct national and racial identities through and against their national symbol and patrimony: the Panama Canal. I also am interested in how the 1989 US Invasion of Panama is included/excluded from canal history, and more
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Jennifer Foerster Poetry Biography Biography Jennifer Elise Foerster is the author of three books of poetry, Leaving Tulsa (2013), Bright Raft in the Afterweather (2018), and The Maybe-Bird (2022), and served as the Associate Editor of When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry. She is the recipient of a NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, a Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellowship, and
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: A Historical and Biographical Guide co-edited with Marion Ann Taylor (Baker Academic 2012) : View Book Biography Agnes Choi teaches courses in biblical studies, with a focus on Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity. Her teaching and research considers how the ancient texts should be understood in their ancient contexts. Her research currently focuses on the ancient economy and the impact of the economy on the urban-rural relationship, as well as the interpretation of the parables of Jesus.
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essays with Julie Marie Wade, Telephone: Essays in Two Voices, received the Cleveland Poetry Center Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her poetry chapbook, The Daughters of Elderly Women, received the Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award. She coauthored, with Suzanne Paola, the textbook Tell It Slant: Creating, Refining, and Publishing Creative Nonfiction, now in its third edition from McGraw-Hill. Mentor. Workshops and classes in nonfiction. Statement: “As both a writer and a teacher, I’m so interested
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, D.C., 1997 M.A., Communication – Broadcast Journalism and Public Affairs, American University, Washington, D.C., 1990 Bachelor of General Studies, with dual emphases in Business Administration and Communication, American University, Washington, D.C., 1989 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Journalism Media Studies Filmmaking and Film Analysis Video Production Books Women, Crime and Culture: Life Stories from the Washington Corrections Center for Women (Lambert Academic Publishing 2009) : View Book
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sociology from Western Washington University, and her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She was promoted to the rank of Professor in 2012. As a faculty member, Gregson has taught and conducted research in the areas of deviance, gender, and qualitative research methods. Over the span of her career, she has published on such topics as teenage mothers, incarcerated mothers, and divorced women. Since 2010 she has been conducting participant observation research with the authors
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the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Artist Trust of Washington, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace E. Stegner Fellow and a Jones Lecturer in Poetry. In 2020 he received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. He lives in Tacoma, WA and is a professor of English at Pacific Lutheran University and is the director of The Rainier Writing Workshop. His fourth book, The Galleons
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Accolades American Academy of Religion Teaching Excellence Award 2006 K.T. Tang Faculty Excellence Award – Research 2004 Paul Bator Memorial Award, Canadian Catholic Historical Society 2001 Elizabeth Seton Medal, College of Mt. St. Joseph, Cincinnati, OH 1999 Arnold and Lois Graves Foundation Award - Outstanding Humanities Teachers 1991 Biography Patricia O’Connell Killen, professor emerita, taught courses in the Department of Religion and in the International Core at PLU from 1989 through 2010. She
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