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Fiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Scott Nadelson is the author of four story collections, most recently The Fourth Corner of the World; a memoir, The Next Scott Nadelson: A Life in Progress; and a novel, Between You and Me. His stories and essays have appeared in Harvard Review, AGNI, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, The Southern Review, Crazyhorse, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, and Alaska Quarterly Review, and have been cited as notable in both Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays. Winner of the Oregon Book Award, the Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize, he teaches at Willamette University and lives in Salem, Oregon. Mentor.
Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays. Winner of the Oregon Book Award, the Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize, he teaches at Willamette University and lives in Salem, Oregon. Mentor. Workshops and classes in fiction. Statement: “As a writer, I am endlessly surprised and fascinated by the possibilities offered by narrative and by language; as a teacher, I try to get students excited about those possibilities by sharing my discoveries and
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Fiction, Nonfiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Renee Simms, J.D., MFA, is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, a John Gardner Fiction Fellowship at Bread Loaf, and fellowships from Ragdale and Vermont Studio Center.
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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Professor of Kinesiology | Department of Kinesiology | hackercm@plu.edu | 253-535-7363 | Dr.
Psychology of Elite Athletes and Corporate Leaders Motor Learning and Human Performance Team Building for High Performing Teams Books Catch Them Being Good: Everything You Need to Know to Successfully Coach Girls co-authored with Tony Dicicco and Charles Salzberg (Penguin Books 2003) Selected Presentations US Open Golf panel by Deloitte, Invited Panel Presentation, The Corporate Athlete Wellness Strategies for Executive Women, San Martin, CA (2016) Invited Presentation, Ed Wells Partnership BEN
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Poetry, Nonfiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Brian Teare, a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, is the author of seven critically acclaimed books, including Companion Grasses and Doomstead Days, winner of the Four Quartets Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle, Kingsley Tufts, and Lambda Literary Awards. His most recent publications are a diptych of book-length ekphrastic projects exploring queer abstraction, chronic illness, and collage: the 2022 Nightboat reissue of The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven, and the fall 2023 publication of Poem Bitten by a Man. After over a decade of teaching and writing in the San Francisco Bay Area, and eight years in Philadelphia, he’s now an Associate Professor of Poetry at the University of Virginia.
creative practice, drawing traditional and experimental writing and art into conversation through a feminist, queer language politics. And I encourage each writer to gather around their work an expansive, eclectic archive of writers, thinkers, and artists whose practices inspire, challenge, and drive inquiry ever deeper, stranger, and more true to their individual vision.
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Poetry | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Oliver de la Paz is author and editor of several books and serves as the Poet Laureate of Worcester, MA.
that best suits their individual needs as both writers and students. In engaging in a dialogue with them about the process, I try to make them aware that the act of writing takes time and that many of those who do live the writing life go through frustrations but also great joys. “
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Emeritus Librarian | Library | Gail worked in Library Services at PLU from 1992-2020. .
University (November 30, 2005) PLU Faculty Fall Conference, Where, How and Why to Introduce First Year Students to Research, Co-presenter: Kate Grieshaber, Pacific Lutheran University (August 2004) AAUW, Women in Medieval/Renaissance Mystery Fiction, Gig Harbor, WA (February 2000) Feminist Scholarship Series, Women in Medieval Mystery Fiction, Pacific Lutheran University (November 1998) Selected Articles "Is Sister Fidelma a Credible Historical Character?." Mystery Readers International, Irish Mysteries
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Lecturer - Double Bass | Music | jensenak@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | Growing up in a large, musical family with five siblings, Dr.
principal bassist of the Tacoma Opera Orchestra, the principal bassist of Vashon Opera, and regularly performs with orchestras across the region. She has performed with the Second City Chamber Music Series, the Icicle Creek Chamber Music Festival, the Kairos Music Festival and Lyceum, the Rackham Chamber Music Series, and the All Rivers at Once contemporary music series. Dr. Jensen has been the featured soloist with the Everett Philharmonic Orchestra, the Lake Chelan Bach Festival Orchestra, the
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Visiting Instructor of Music, Strings, and Composition | Music | korine.fujiwara@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | Montana native Korine Fujiwara is a founding member of the Carpe Diem String Quartet, a devoted and sought-after chamber musician and teacher, and a gifted composer and arranger. Ms.
, Cincinnati College Conservatory, and Northwestern University to continue their musical studies. Named as one of Strings Magazine’s “25 Contemporary Composers to Watch,” Korine has received multiple commissions including works for opera, chamber ensembles, chorus, concerti, and music for modern dance. Her works have been performed throughout the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Italy, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Australia, China, and Japan. Her musical language encompasses a wide range of
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Executive Director, Professor of Hispanic and Latino Studies, Program Director PLU Gateway Program in Oaxaca | Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education | williatr@plu.edu | 253-535-7577 | Tamara R.
Spanish Language at many levels as well as courses focused on Latin American literatures and cultures. She is the author of several articles on Latin American poetry and project coordinator of the bilingual edition of Ernesto Cardenal’s El estrecho dudoso/The Doubtful Strait published by Indiana University Press. Her current research interests focus on masculinities as they relate to the recovery of lyrical subjectivities in contemporary Mexican poetry and fiction. She pioneered PLU’s first J-term
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Visiting Assistant Professor of English | Department of English | lenk@plu.edu | 253-535-7873
Contest "How We See." · Columbia Journal Online "The Mourning Club." · F(r)iction No. 17, Winter Research Projects Lenk, Jerico. Rearranging the Room: An Adaptation of Jane Eyre with Afterword, 2022. University of Washington, Master of Fine Arts critical thesis. Lenk, Jerico. happy russians (& other fairy tales), 2022. University of Washington, Master of Fine Arts creative thesis. Books The Missing (Month 9 Books 2017) : View Book Selected Presentations Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference
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