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Professor Emeritus | Earth Science | benhamsr@plu.edu | Dr.
“soft-rock” area, Stratigraphy and Sedimentation and Paleontology. Hands-on experiences in the lab and field have always been central to Steve’s classes and he loves to take students out to the coast during the lowest tides of the year, even when it involves a 6 am start! He has led many field trip courses that students remember fondly, notably to Hawaii over J-term and to the interior Southwest in the four corners area over Spring Break. He also taught in the Middle College/Challenge Program for
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Fiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | April Ayers Lawson is the author of Virgin and Other Stories, which was named a Best Book of the Year by The Irish Times and Vice, and a Best Foreign Book of the Year by Spain’s Qué Leer Magazine. Virgin and Other Stories has been (or will be) translated into German, Spanish, Norwegian, and Italian. She has received The Plimpton Prize for Fiction, as well as a writing fellowship from The Corporation of Yaddo. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, Die Welt, ZYZZYVA, and Oxford American, among others, has been cited as notable in Best American Short Stories, featured by Huffington Post, and anthologized in The Unprofessionals: New American Writing from The Paris Review. Her nonfiction has appeared in Der Spiegel, Granta, Vice, and Neue Zürcher Zeitung Magazine, and been named a Most Popular Read of the Year by Granta. She has taught in the creative writing programs at Emory University and the University Of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and now teaches at Clemson University. Mentor. Workshops and classes in fiction. Statement: “The most important thing your writing can be is interesting. And by that I mean interesting to you, because when you’re deeply engaged in the process, the work sparks alive. This level of engagement involves writing into places you didn’t expect and opening to the risk of surprise.
Carolina, Chapel Hill, and now teaches at Clemson University. Mentor. Workshops and classes in fiction. Statement: “The most important thing your writing can be is interesting. And by that I mean interesting to you, because when you’re deeply engaged in the process, the work sparks alive. This level of engagement involves writing into places you didn’t expect and opening to the risk of surprise. In art as in life, we often enough try to dodge what would make us grow because it’s uncomfortable, and
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Nonfiction, Fiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Aram Mrjoian is the editor-in-chief of The Rumpus and a 2022 Creative Armenia-AGBU Fellow.
Guardian, Runner’s World, Literary Hub, Catapult, West Branch, Electric Literature, Gulf Coast, Boulevard, Joyland, Longreads, and many other publications. Mentor. Workshops and classes in nonfiction and fiction. Statement: My primary goal as an educator is to help students develop artistic agency and encourage creative sustainability. Rather than fall back on craft axioms around what makes good writing, my teaching emphasizes individual decision-making, creative exploration, and radical revision, with
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Editor in Residence, Poetry | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Stephen Corey is the author of four full-length collections of poetry, the latest being There Is No Finished World (White Pine Press, 2003), and six chapbooks.
, 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
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Poetry | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | torrin a.
. She is the author of DEED (Wesleyan University Press, 2024) and Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (Milkweed Editions, 2020), a Minnesota Book Award and CLMP Firecracker Award finalist, and winner of the 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She teaches at the Rainier Writing Workshop, the low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University. Mentor. Workshops and classes in poetry. Statement: In his lecture A Seduction: Metaphor and the Come Hither, Tim Seibles writes “If poetry is a fire in the
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Associate Professor of Music - Voice | Music | chosy@plu.edu | 253-535-7855 | Acclaimed by Opera News for her “potent” and “intense and incisive” stage presence, and praised by the Cincinnati Post as “regal in bearing, with vocal endowments to match,” lyric mezzo-soprano Soon Cho is an Associate Professor of Voice at Pacific Lutheran University.
bearing, with vocal endowments to match,” lyric mezzo-soprano Soon Cho is an Associate Professor of Voice at Pacific Lutheran University. Dr. Cho is a sought-after clinician, conducting master classes at institutions such as San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Ithaca College, Florida State University, and various Schmidt Vocal Competitions annually. Dr. Cho is a member of the summer teaching faculty at the Brancaleoni International Music Festival in Italy, and Icicle Creek Chamber Music Festival in
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Assistant Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy | Marriage and Family Therapy | alexus.hamilton@plu.edu | 253-535-8167 | Dr.
2023 from the University of Iowa. While there, she volunteered at the LGBTQ Counseling Clinic where she provided ongoing therapy and letters of support for gender affirming care. In addition to her clinical work, she is building a program of research around strengthening supports for Black clinicians by exploring factors related to their retention and attrition. She is dedicated to supporting therapists in training on their journey to becoming culturally responsive therapists.
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Professor Emeritus | Earth Science | Brian E.
Department of Earth Sciences was realized in 1970 and the first major graduated that year; he is here with us tonight – Roger Hansen. Since 1970, more than 230 majors and minors have graduated from the department and nearly every student that has passed through the department has taken one or more classes from Brian. Over the years, Brian has taught a broad range of science courses to both geology majors and non-majors. In the early years, he taught all the courses! For the few courses that were outside
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Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies | College of Liberal Studies | dowland@plu.edu | 253-535-8125 | Seth Dowland teaches courses in PLU’s International Honors, First-Year Experience, Religion, and Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies programs.
Experience, Religion, and Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies programs. His classes offer interdisciplinary perspectives on American religions, with particular emphasis on the ways religion interacts with gender, race, politics, and violence. His research focuses on the intersection of religion, gender, and American politics in the twentieth century. His book, “Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right”, was published in 2015 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. He is currently working on a
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Poetry | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Jennifer Elise Foerster is the author of three books of poetry, Leaving Tulsa (2013), Bright Raft in the Afterweather (2018), and The Maybe-Bird (2022), and served as the Associate Editor of When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry. She is the recipient of a NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, a Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellowship, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford.
Oklahoma. She lives in San Francisco. Mentor. Workshops and classes in poetry. Statement: “Poetry can expand, challenge, and deepen our ways of knowing. Adrienne Rich wrote: “Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.” I believe my work with you is only to serve as a guide, to encourage you towards what you don’t know you know, and to inspire you to grow deeper into your potential as a writer. Poetry is especially vital in today’s world; my teaching work is to challenge you
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