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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

Lab CHEM 344: Physical Chemistry Lab 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

– 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

Bella Bravo Visiting Assistant Professor of English Phone: 253-535-7512 Email: bella.bravo@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 220-I Professional Education MFA, Master of Fine Arts n Creative Writing (Fiction), University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2022 J.D., Doctor of Jurisprudence, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana, 2012 B.A., Arts in History, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2009

, 1912-2002.  He has co-edited three books in as many genres, most recently (with Warren Slesinger) Spreading the Word: Editors on Poetry (The Bench Press, 2001).  He has worked as a literary editor for nearly 35 years, first with The Devil’s Millhopper from 1976-1983, and since then with The Georgia Review, where he currently serves as editor.  He lives in Athens, Georgia and serves as Editor-in-Residence in the Rainier Writing Workshop. Editor in Residence. Mentor. Workshops and classes in

Olivia Holberg HR Specialist Phone: 253-535-7268 Email: olivia.holberg@plu.edu Professional Responsibilities Staff position announcements, advertising, and recruitment Onboarding for new staff Faculty part-time teaching agreements/Service Agreements Service agreements and temporary staff Personal and Professional Development Opportunities coordination HR website Title IX training coordination

Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at West Virginia University, and she is on the faculty of the Rainier Writing Workshop, Pacific Lutheran University’s low-residency MFA program.  She lives in Pittsburgh, PA. Mentor. Workshops and classes in poetry. Statement: If, as Muriel Rukeyser says, poems are “meeting-places,” I am ever-ready to meet you in those places and to help you to think through the difficult pleasures of creating such encounters. I am eager, too, to discuss how you situate your work