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  • Originally Published in 2014 When I was a graduate student at the University of Iowa, the classicist and writer Anne Carson came to campus to give a reading and a colloquium. During the colloquium, she was asked how she navigated among the wild variety of…

    creative work, another for her scholarship and teaching. Even then I knew, of course, that the scholarly and the creative were false categories. A poem was as much the result of a poet’s deep critical study of poetry as it was the result of inspiration. In the same way, the best scholarship that I read at the time— Richard Poirier on Robert Frost, Helen Vendler on Wallace Stevens, and Carson herself on Paul Celan—had a dazzling creativity of insight that made scholarly writing as artful as the works

  • As a part of the Publishing & Printing Arts minor, students need up to 8 semester/credit hours from at least two of the following categories.

    aspects of the publishing industry like style of writing; specific forms such as poetry, prose, journalistic, or professional writing; specific publishing formats like the Chicago Manual of Style or AP (Associated Press) Style; and gaining strong editing skills. Some examples of classes in this category include The English Language, Communication Writing, and Digital Writing and Storytelling. Marketing/Management This category of elective courses focuses on students’ professional skills concerning

  • 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.

    Aram Mrjoian Nonfiction, Fiction Biography Biography Aram Mrjoian is the editor-in-chief of The Rumpus and a 2022 Creative Armenia-AGBU Fellow. His debut novel, Waterline, is forthcoming with Harper Via in 2025. Aram has previously worked as an editor at the Chicago Review of Books, the Southeast Review, and TriQuarterly. He is the editor of the anthology We Are All Armenian: Voices from the Diaspora published by the University of Texas Press (March 2023). His writing has appeared in The

  • Fiction, Nonfiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Renee Simms, J.D., MFA, is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, a John Gardner Fiction Fellowship at Bread Loaf, and fellowships from Ragdale and Vermont Studio Center.

    Renee Simms Fiction, Nonfiction Biography Biography Renee Simms, J.D., MFA, is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, a John Gardner Fiction Fellowship at Bread Loaf, and fellowships from Ragdale and Vermont Studio Center. She’s an associate professor of African American Studies at University of Puget Sound and teaches with the Rainier Writing Workshop, Pacific Lutheran’s low-residency MFA program. Her debut story collection Meet Behind Mars was a Foreword

  • Thursday, April 11, 2024 7:00 PM, Regency Room, AUC 203 This event is open to the campus community for in-person attendance.

    such as History Channel, Animal Planet, Discovery, INSP, PBS, Fox, and others. In 2019, Miranda was awarded a Fulbright Grant to Bergen, Norway, where she taught academic writing workshops and the very first creative writing class at the University of Bergen. She earned her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Montana and is at work on a hybrid memoir about corporeality, trauma, resilience, and community.

  • Student Success Advisor | Academic Advising | sbostwick@plu.edu | Sebastian Bostwick is nonbinary trans poet, cat person, and plant parent.

    Sebastian Bostwick Student Success Advisor They/Them Email: sbostwick@plu.edu Professional Biography Education Master of Fine Arts, Poetry, Notre Dame, 2020 Bachelor of Arts, English, Western Washington University, 2016 Biography Sebastian Bostwick is nonbinary trans poet, cat person, and plant parent. They’ve been with PLU since August 2022, but working in higher education has been a life-long dream of theirs. They hold a Bachelor of Arts in English, with an emphasis in Creative Writing, from

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  • Student Success Advisor | Center for Student Success | sbostick@plu.edu | Sebastian Bostwick is a nonbinary trans poet, cat person, and plant parent.

    Sebastian Bostwick Student Success Advisor They/Them Email: sbostick@plu.edu Professional Biography Education Master of Fine Arts, Poetry, Notre Dame, 2020 Bachelor of Arts, English, Western Washington University, 2016 Biography Sebastian Bostwick is a nonbinary trans poet, cat person, and plant parent. They’ve been with PLU since August 2022, but working in higher education has been a life-long dream of theirs. They hold a Bachelor of Arts in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing from

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  • Pacific Lutheran University is a community of scholars, a community of readers and writers. Reading informs the intellect and liberates the imagination. Writing pervades our academic lives as teachers and students, both as a way of communicating what we learn and as a means of shaping thoughts and ideas. All faculty members share the responsibility for improving the literacy of their students. Faculty in every department and school make writing an essential part of their courses and show

  • Poetry, Nonfiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Brian Teare, a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, is the author of seven critically acclaimed books, including Companion Grasses and Doomstead Days, winner of the Four Quartets Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle, Kingsley Tufts, and Lambda Literary Awards. His most recent publications are a diptych of book-length ekphrastic projects exploring queer abstraction, chronic illness, and collage: the 2022 Nightboat reissue of The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven, and the fall 2023 publication of Poem Bitten by a Man. After over a decade of teaching and writing in the San Francisco Bay Area, and eight years in Philadelphia, he’s now an Associate Professor of Poetry at the University of Virginia.

    Form Goes All the Way to Heaven, and the fall 2023 publication of Poem Bitten by a Man. After over a decade of teaching and writing in the San Francisco Bay Area, and eight years in Philadelphia, he’s now an Associate Professor of Poetry at the University of Virginia. An editorial board member of Poetry Daily, he lives in Charlottesville, where he makes books by hand for Albion Books, his micropress. Mentor. Workshops and classes in poetry, nonfiction, environmental writing. Statement: As a mentor

  • Nonfiction, Poetry | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | 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 Beatrice Hawley, and Ohio State University Press awards in poetry.  Recent work appears in Agni, Field, The Georgia Review, Orion, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Best American Essays.  She is Writer in Residence at The University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and teaches at writing programs around the country, including, most recently, the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference.  She lives in Baltimore with her family. Mentor.

    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