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 Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays.  Winner of the Oregon Book Award, the Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize, he teaches at Willamette University and lives in Salem, Oregon. Mentor. Workshops and classes in fiction. Statement: “As a writer, I am endlessly surprised and fascinated by the possibilities offered by narrative and by language; as a teacher, I try to get students excited about those possibilities by sharing my discoveries and

. Norton in 2015.  Her awards include an NEA fellowship in poetry, two Pushcart Prizes in nonfiction, and recognition as a distinguished teacher of adults.  She judged a number of national awards, including the Pushcart Prize for poetry, the Theodore Roethke Prize, the Anhinga Prize, the AWP Nonfiction Award, the Bush Foundation fellowships, and the Oregon Book Award.  Kitchen was an Advisory and Contributing Editor for The Georgia Review where she regularly reviewed poetry for over twenty-five years

, and there are fewer and fewer things I know. But I know what it takes to write. I know the fear; I know the dangers and demons; and I know the joy. As a teacher, I try to help students understand this journey, and I try to help them live it as the adventure of their lifetime.”

Amy Young Professor of Communication she/her/hers Phone: 253-536-5165 Email: youngam@plu.edu Professional Biography Personal Additional Titles/Roles Vice-chair of Faculty Education Ph.D., Rhetoric, University of Texas, 2007 M.A., Communication Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2003 B.A., Communication Studies, Vanderbilt University Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Public Relations Books Teacher, Scholar, Mother: (Re)Envisioning Motherhood in the Academy (Lexington Books 2015) Prophets

mind, then metaphor is an accelerant and poets are arsonists.” Whether a writer intends this fire to provide warmth or to burn something down, my goal as a teacher and mentor is to provide them with the tools necessary to stoke that flame. Meeting students’ writing on its terms and through the lens of their own individual poetic canons, rather than a monolithic notion of craft, I hope to draw out the best and bravest versions of their work. I encourage writers to court failure in their writing

work may be in lineage with. As a teacher and a fellow poet, I have found that the poems we write are often smarter than we are. At times a promising draft carries a mysterious autonomous logic, one that is difficult for the writer–too close to the thing they’ve made–to fully grasp. As a result, in workshop discussions I press readers to be as descriptive as possible about what they see or hear, so as to mirror back a discrete sense of what a given poem is up to. I will also challenge you to break

energy and motivation like the shock of what is new. I believe that every person has a distinct camera lens and this comes through in your writing. My job as your teacher is to help you focus that lens, and see in your own unique way–and then help you tell us all that you see. I am interested in mentoring anyone, but am always seeking people with a viewpoint we don’t see too much: working class, transgender, biracial, under-represented cultures, etc. Please come challenge me with something new.

: I believe my job as a writing teacher is to do three primary things:  Serving as a supportive guide, helping you discover literature you may not have encountered on your own that will add to your literary toolkit, and helping you deconstruct the architecture of stories so that you might better unpack your own decisions. Whether you write domestic realism or speculative work or work that defies categorization, I place an emphasis on helping my students appreciate and understand not only the craft

Laurie Murphy Chair of Computer Science she/her/hers Phone: 253-535-8729 Email: lmurphy@plu.edu Office Location: Morken Center for Learning & Technology - 251 Website: https://sites.google.com/plu.edu/laurie-murphy Curriculum Vitae: View my CV Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Professor of Computer Science Education M.S., Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, 1988 B.S., Mathematics, Delta State University, 1986 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Computer Science Education Recursion

Linda Miller Associate Professor, Coordinator of Music Education she, her Phone: 253-535-7789 Email: millerlj@plu.edu Office Location: Mary Baker Russell Music Center - 208 Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon - Fri: By Appointment Professional Biography Education Ph.D., Music Education, University of Idaho, 1997 M.M, Music Education, University of Idaho, 1992 B.M.E., Music Education, New Mexico State University, 1970 Responsibilities Chair, Music Education Area Music Education Courses Faculty Sponsor