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journalist and magazine editor. She received numerous awards for community service journalism, feature writing, and editing from the Louisiana Press Association and the Associated Press. Erin has a bachelor’s degree in women’s studies and liberal arts from McNeese State University and an MFA from Rosemont College. She lives in Delaware. She teaches in the MFA programs at Hamline University and Rosemont College. She also teaches fiction with Gotham Writers Workshop. 2021: Meg Medina Rough Patch: On

JD from Wayne State University Law School, and a BA from University of Michigan. She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, was a John Gardner Fiction Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and received fellowships from Ragdale and Vermont Studio Center. In addition to teaching in the Rainier Writing Workshop, Renee teaches at University of Puget Sound, where she is an associate professor of African American Studies and contributing faculty to

Studies program, and the Taos Summer Writers’ Conference. He lives in Oregon and teaches at Oregon State University.Rigoberto GonzalezRigoberto González is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Unpeopled Eden, which won the Lambda Literary Award and the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and eleven books of prose, including Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, which received the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. The recipient of

efforts in making inclusive excellence a core value of PLU. We seek to foster a community that goes beyond tolerance of difference to one that is guided by the principles of equity, social justice, cultural competence and engaged citizenship. This comes through in our academic work including our annual Holocaust Education Conference, and this fall will also mark the beginning of a Minor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, one of only a few in the nation. It comes through in our commitment to studying

. Beyond these interpersonal relationships, which I cherish to this day and intend to maintain for years to come, I also gained knowledge and skills through my coursework that have proven useful to me in later academic endeavors. While I was in Norway, I conducted an independent field research project on Norwegian approaches to development aid, which involved personal interviews with several prominent scholars and practitioners. Now, in my graduate studies in the anthropology and sociology of