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with contemporary American poets, published by Associated University Presses; Hidden Sequel, winner of the Barrow Street Book Award for 2005; Lost and Midnight, both from State Street Press; On the Coast, a chapbook (Pudding House, 2002); and Five Colors, from CustomWords (WordTech).  His poems have appeared in such magazines as The Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry Northwest, The Georgia Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Chelsea, Iowa Review and several anthologies.  He was awarded a

Festival, the Highland Jazz Festival, the Fairbanks Summer Art Festival, the Crown of the Continent Guitar Foundation Festival, the Blaine Jazz Festival and the Buddy DeFranco/University of Montana Jazz Festival, the latter four of which he plays annually. He has shared the bandstand with a long list of jazz luminaries including Michael Brecker, Arturo Sandoval, Dave Samuels, Peter Erskine, Bruce Forman, Tamir Hendelman, Bob Mintzer, Lew Soloff, Bucky Pizzarelli, Benny Golson, Paquito D’Rivera, Phil

Boyd Cowan, ARNP, PMHNP-BC Lecturer Email: bcowan@plu.edu Biography Biography Boyd moved to the Pacific Northwest from New Mexico in 2003 and began his educational Journey that led to him completing his degree in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing from Seattle University in 2015.  Boyd also has a master’s degree in Existential Phenomenological Psychology from Seattle University. Early in his nursing career Boyd worked with chronically and acutely mentally ill patients in psychiatric inpatient

-Required Reading.  She is a professor in the Department of English-MFA/MA in Creative Writing and Publishing Program at DePaul University in Chicago, where she directs the LGBTQ Studies minor and edits Slag Glass City, a journal of the urban essay arts.  Mentor. Workshops and classes in nonfiction. Statement: “Writing is a process: part thought, part instinct, part wish. Every honest draft holds some glimmer of what your work might become. To write is to try, try, and try again, until we’re stunned to

Nonfiction Award and Sierra magazine’s Nature Writing Award, and she was a finalist for the Katharine Nason Bakeless Nonfiction Literary Publication Prize, sponsored by Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.  She is a professor of creative nonfiction writing in the Low-Residency MFA program at the University of Alaska Anchorage and serves on the faculty of the Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference. Mentor. Workshops and classes in nonfiction. Statement: “My favorite moment is when a writer who’s struggling with a

Noel Sigafoos Institutional Research Analyst he/him they/them Email: sigafonl@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 107 Professional Education B.S., Computer Science, Pacific Lutheran University, 2022

Beth Crippen Senior Evaluations Administrator Phone: 253-535-7331 Email: crippeba@plu.edu Professional Education B.A., Anthropology, Pacific Lutheran University Responsibilities Transcript Evaluation – Equivalency Guides – Student CAPP Updates – Transfer Credit

Melanie Kingsley Systems Administrator Phone: 253-535-7188 Email: mkingsley@plu.edu Office Location:Mortvedt Library - Room 24 Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon - Fri: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Professional Education B.A., Business Administration, Western Washington University

Marie Mutsuki Mockett Fiction, Nonfiction Biography Biography Marie Mutsuki Mockett was born to an American father and Japanese mother, and graduated from Columbia University with a degree in East Asian Languages and Civilizations.  Her memoir, Where the Dead Pause and the Japanese Say Goodbye, examines grief against the backdrop of the 2011 Great East Earthquake, and Mockett’s family temple located 25 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power reactor.  Mockett’s awards include a

Magazine, and One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories, and has been listed as notable in Best American Non-Required Reading and the Best Horror of the Year. He has previously taught at The College of Idaho, Southern Illinois University, and the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. He currently teaches at St. Olaf College and resides in Minneapolis. He is at work on forthcoming novel, Girl Zero. More at http://SequoiaNagamatsu.com. Mentor.  Workshops and classes in fiction. Statement