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Lia Purpura Nonfiction, Poetry Website: http://www.liapurpura.com/ Biography Biography Lia Purpura is the author of eight collections of essays, poems, and translations, most recently, Rough Likeness (essays) and It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful (poems).  Her honors include a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, National Endowment for the Arts and Fulbright Fellowships, three Pushcart prizes, the Associated Writing Programs Award in Nonfiction, and the

of romance novels, examining the gendered aspects of the career and how women experience writing what has been described as the most popular, least respected literary genre. At PLU, Gregson has a long record of faculty governance and leadership experience. She has served on and chaired the Campus Life Committee, the Rank and Tenure Committee, and the Governance Committee, and has served as Chair of the Faculty, Vice Chair of the Faculty, and Faculty Secretary. Her service record also includes

Missoula Writing Collaborative, teaching classes on short story writing in high schools, and the 406 writing workshop.  For many years he worked as a fishing guide on the Smith River and raised cattle on his family farm in Wisconsin. Mentor. Workshops and classes in fiction. Statement: “My success in the publishing world is limited, but my success as a writer has been boundless.  Every book I have written has taken me on an adventure I would have thought impossible beforehand. I am a middle-aged man

Guardian, Tin House, New England Review, DIAGRAM, ZYZZYVA, and many other publications, as well as anthologies including Best of the West and The Pushcart Prize. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and has a BA and MFA from the University of Arizona. He lives in Oregon and teaches at Oregon State University and the Rainier Writing Workshop. Mentor. Workshops and classes in fiction and nonfiction I want your work to be your own, so my approach to advising individual students

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

Faculty Research Grant, Pacific Lutheran University (2017-18) Karen Hille Phillips Regency Advancement Award, Pacific Lutheran University (2015-16) Kelmer-Roe Faculty-Student Research Award, Pacific Lutheran University (with Clayton Bracht) (2013-14) Award for Excellence in Teaching Writing, Duke University (2009) Research Travel Grants, Thompson Writing Program, Duke University (2008, 2009, & 2010) Louisville Institute Dissertation Fellowship (2006-07) Summer Research Fellowship, Duke University

in 2024, Dr. Johnson served as Professor of English, Chair of the Department of English and Communication, and Director of the Honors Program at The College of St. Scholastica. Previously, she taught as a visiting professor at University of Puget Sound and Valparaiso University, where she also held a Lilly Postdoctoral Fellowship. Dr. Johnson earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington in 2005 with a dissertation titled The Ethics of Epiphany in Wordsworth, Tennyson, Barret

and colonial and post-colonial authors. Gerzso also teaches an IHON 257 on theories and representations of labor under capitalism since the Industrial Revolution, and has taught an IHON 257 course on the modern university in Britain for the International Honors Program at Oxford University, where he served as site director in fall 2018. His Writing 101 course focuses on visual art and culture, and in 2019-2020 he will teach an IHON 328 course on politics and utopia, focusing on theories and

Brenda Miller Nonfiction Website: http://www.brendamillerwriter.com/ Biography Biography Brenda Miller edited the anthology The Next Draft: Inspiring Craft Talks from the Rainier Writing Workshop. Her most recent collection of her own work is A Braided Heart: Essays on Writing and Form. She is the author of five more essay collections, including An Earlier Life, which received the Washington State Book Award for Memoir, and she is the recipient of six Pushcart Prizes. Her book of collaborative

-hundred-year-old wheat farm in Nebraska, and the changing role of food, God, science, race and agriculture in society, and was a finalist for the Lukas Prize, awarded by Columbia and Harvard University’s Schools of Journalism.  She lives in San Francisco. Mentor. Workshops and classes in fiction and nonfiction. Statement:  I think of writing as intimately connected to seeing. I ask myself–and students–“What do you see that other people are missing?” As artists, we want to entertain and we want to be