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immediate preference and comfort; it’s essential for writers to engage deeply with the nuances of language, voice, and style and to develop a sensitivity and understanding toward the formal and technical aspects of their craft. By emphasizing aesthetic values in the workshop, I aim to equip my students with the tools and critical frameworks they need to both understand and create work that is personally meaningful and artistically significant.

Junichi Tsuneoka Assistant Professor of Design; Director of Innovation Studies he/him Phone: 253-535-7778 Email: jtsuneoka@plu.edu Office Location: Ingram Hall - 104 Website: //stubbornsideburn.com Professional Biography Education BFA, English Literature, Waseda University, Tokyo BFA, Graphic Design, Cornish College of the Arts Accolades https://birdsconnectsea.org/2023/06/20/community-emblem/ Biography Junichi Tsuneoka has been doing very illustrative graphic design work nationally and

, winner of the S. Mariella Gable Prize from Graywolf Press, as well as a critical study of William Stafford, Writing the World (Oregon State University Press).  She edited (with Ted Kooser, former U. S. Poet Laureate) an anthology of bird poems: The Poets Guide to the Birds (Anhinga Press).  In addition, she edited three collections of short nonfiction: In Short; In Brief; and Short Takes (all W. W. Norton).  A fourth anthology—Brief Encounter, co-edited with Dinah Lenney—is forthcoming from W. W

humanities International modernisms and avant-gardes Theories and representations of labor Literary and critical theory Books History, Empire, Critique: New Essays in World Literature. Ed. Asher Ghaffar Chapters "Aesthetic Re-Imaginings of Mexican Sovereignty: Esrtidentismo’s Anti-Imperialist Avant- Garde" (Routledge 2018) Selected Articles "No Useless Labor: Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis and the Importance of Intellectual Work." Textual Practice Vol. 33, no. 6, 2019: "Estridentistas de Estado: la

Rafael del Castillo Visiting Assistant Professor Email: rdelcastillo@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 121 Professional Biography Education B.S.E., Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida, 1985 M.S., Science Education, Florida International University, 1992 Post-Grad. Studies, Educational Research, University of Miami/University of Washington, 1997-2001 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Science Education Mathematics Education Educational Leadership Biography Rafael is a

-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

elements of stories but also the traditions particular stories come from—how place and race and history often converge to inspire and inform a creative work, pushing it beyond the sum of its parts. I view a classroom setting and one-on-one mentorship as a kind of community of empathy and exploration where we’ll ask questions like: What are the building blocks of this story? Who is the imagined audience? What might I want to emulate? Why am I resistant to a certain narrative? Why have I embraced this

Contest "How We See." · Columbia Journal Online "The Mourning Club." · F(r)iction No. 17, Winter Research Projects Lenk, Jerico. Rearranging the Room: An Adaptation of Jane Eyre with Afterword, 2022. University of Washington, Master of Fine Arts critical thesis. Lenk, Jerico. happy russians (& other fairy tales), 2022. University of Washington, Master of Fine Arts creative thesis. Books The Missing (Month 9 Books 2017) : View Book Selected Presentations Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference

process, treating each draft as a space for experimentation, for excess, and for bold choices they might otherwise never make.In the creative writing classroom, I aim to rethink and decenter traditional approaches to the workshop, which structurally privilege a small set of identities and formal approaches. Integrating critical interventions by Arielle Greenberg and Felicia Rose Chavez, I use an alternative workshop pedagogy that engages each writer in shaping the structure of the workshop. This

writing program is for students to see themselves as artists participating in an expansive and diverse literary landscape that expects them to write compelling work, to challenge and surprise their readers, and to encourage curiosity, critical thinking and emotional growth. To that end, I uphold a high standard for myself, and I invite those who choose to work with me to do so as well.”