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Book Darker Fall: Poems (Sarabande Books 2002) : View Book Accolades John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2016 UNT Rilke Prize, for Chord, 2016 Finalist for the LA Times Book Prize, for Chord, 2016 PEN Open Book Award, for Chord, 2016 Thom Gunn Award, for Chord, 2016 Civitella Ranieri Residency Fellowship, 2011 K.T. Tang Award for Faculty Excellence in Research, 2010 Artist Trust Fellowship Award, 2009 Grub Street Book Prize, for Want, 2009 Finalist for Lambda Literary Awards, for

writing at PLU from 1980 to 2014. Although trained as a medievalist, she taught a broad range of literature, from Homer’s Iliad through Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Doris Lessing’s The Cleft. While teaching research and writing as well as advanced composition, her real attention was devoted to first-year writing seminars, on such topics as “Mothers and Daughters,” “Women and the Beauty Myth,” and “Barbie, Bratz, and Bella: The Construction of Girlhood in the Twenty-First Century.” Over

(Sarabande Books 2008) : View Book Darker Fall: Poems (Sarabande Books 2002) : View Book Professional Memberships/Organizations John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2016) UNT Rilke Prize, for Chord (2016) Finalist for the LA Times Book Prize, for Chord (2016) PEN Open Book Award, for Chord (2016) Thom Gunn Award, for Chord (2016) Civitella Ranieri Residency Fellowship (2011) K.T. Tang Award for Faculty Excellence in Research (2010) Artist Trust Fellowship Award (2009) Grub Street Book

Book Darker Fall: Poems (Sarabande Books 2002) : View Book Accolades John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2016 UNT Rilke Prize, for Chord, 2016 Finalist for the LA Times Book Prize, for Chord, 2016 PEN Open Book Award, for Chord, 2016 Thom Gunn Award, for Chord, 2016 Civitella Ranieri Residency Fellowship, 2011 K.T. Tang Award for Faculty Excellence in Research, 2010 Artist Trust Fellowship Award, 2009 Grub Street Book Prize, for Want, 2009 Finalist for Lambda Literary Awards, for

guitar ensemble arrangements include works by John Coltrane, Angelo Debarre, Duke Ellington, and Artie Shaw. Since 2009 he has performed with PLU colleague Elizabeth Brown, presenting many of his own arrangements for two guitars, including pieces by Albéniz, Bach, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, and Turina. Howland completed his DMA research paper, Edward’s MacDowell’s “Woodland Sketches” Arranged for Guitar: A Performance Edition, Biography, and Literature Review, in 1998. For more information visit