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  • PRIORITY DEADLINES Applications will be considered on a year-round basis, though our evaluation process will be most intensive in the periods after these key priority deadlines: Priority Date –

    account Create your PLU application account at choose.plu.edu/apply. Select ‘Pacific Lutheran University Application 2025’, then ‘Graduate Application 2025’ & ‘Create Application’. You’ll select your program on Page 2 of the application. Step Two: Submit all required supporting items belowCreative writing sample The sample should represent your best work (15 pages of poetry or 30-40 pages of prose, or a genre mix not to exceed 40 pages). You may submit scanned copies of published work. In manuscript

  • The Rainier Writing Workshop’s “Outside Experience” offers participants a unique opportunity to gain valuable hands-on experience in a challenging aspect of the writing life.

    , Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, Scholars-in-Residence Program at the C.S. Lewis Study Centre in England, among others. Traveled abroad including Ireland, Germany, England, France, Laos, Bali, Hawaii, Nicaragua, Mexico, Antarctica, Korea, the Dominican Republic, Guam and Costa Rica, among others. These travels involved research and interviews for novels, memoirs, and poetry sequences; some students participated in immersion programs in language

  • The Pacific Lutheran University community recently welcomed Stephanie Johnson, the new dean of the College of Liberal Studies, to campus. Johnson comes to PLU from The College of St. Scholastica, where she most recently served as the chair of the Department of English and Communication.…

    studies is at the heart of this university, so I look forward to being an advocate for our shared work both on campus and beyond.”Literary ScholarshipJohnson earned a Ph.D. in English at the University of Washington. Her scholarship focuses on Victorian women’s poetry, most recently an essay on the Victorian “double poem” in the collection Love Among the Poets: The Victorian Poetics of Intimacy published by Ohio University Press. Johnson is also the co-editor of  Cultivating Vocation in Literary

  • Nonfiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Wendy Call (she/her) is the co-editor of the craft anthology Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide (Penguin, 2007) and the new annual Best Literary Translations (Deep Vellum, 2024).

    books of poems by Mexican-Zapotec poet Irma Pineda, with whom she shared the 2022 John Frederick Nims Prize for Translation from the Poetry Foundation: In the Belly of Night and Other Poems (Pluralia/Eulalia, 2022) and Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away Like Riverwater (Deep Vellum, 2024). Her co-translation of How to be a Good Savage and Other Poems (Milkweed, 2024), by Zoque poet Mikeas Sánchez, was called “a significant work in more ways than one” by the New York Times. Wendy has received grants and

  • Questions and issues relevant to popular culture and national discourse are frequently and intentionally engaged by PLU’s Philosophy Department.

    Embrace?: On Whether Computers Can Create Poetry and Art” Joe Norton, “Poetry: A Response to Modern Technology” Robert Shaw, “Passing the Turing Test: Machines, Minds, and Inquiry” Stu Weaverling, “How Does Technology Encourage Evil?” McKenzie Williams, “Complexity in the American Food System: A Relativist Response to Martin Heidegger” Back: Philosophy and Economics in Opole

  • Saturday, Oct. 3, 12:30pm - Sunday, Oct. 4, 3:00pm Come to campus for a unique experience uplifting Hispanic and Latino community and culture at PLU. Saturday, Oct.

    Preview Day (When you RSVP for Latinos Unidos, we will automatically register you for Fall Preview Day) Latinos Unidos ScheduleSaturday, October 3 12:00pm – Registration opens Karen Hille Phillips Center Lobby 12:30pm – Welcome from student club Amigos Unidos Karen Hille Phillips Center 1:15pm – Class with Professor Emily Davidson Voices from The Nuyorican Poets Café: Bilingual Poetry/Bicultural Identities Hauge 101 2:30pm – Campus Tour Departing from Hauge 101 3:45pm – Admission Presentation

  • CIWA Board Chair Geoff Foy, Associate Provost of Graduate Programs and Continuing Education

    - 1:00PM Tour Seattle Chinese Garden, Poetry Reading1:00PM - 1:30PM ``Two Arias from Tacoma Method`` (composed by Gregory Youtz) 1) This Is My Home 2) My Little Cup 1:30PM - 2:30PM Lunch2:45PM - 4:00PM Panel 3: Educational Connections Lü Chan Associate Professor, University of Washington Matthew Burke Chinese Language Instructor, Lincoln High School Tracy Ge Chinese Language Instructor, Sammamish High School Sun Burford Chinese Language Instructor, Tyee Middle School 4:15PM - 5:30PM Panel 4

  • Fiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | David Allan Cates is the author of five novels, most recently Tom Connor’s Gift, a gold medalist in the 2015 Independent Book Publishers Book awards.

    David Allan Cates Fiction Biography Biography David Allan Cates is the author of five novels, most recently Tom Connor’s Gift, a gold medalist in the 2015 Independent Book Publishers Book awards.  His first collection of poetry, The Mysterious Location of Kyrgyzstan, was released in the spring, 2016.  His other novels include: Hunger in America, a New York Times Notable Book, X Out of Wonderland, and Freeman Walker, both Montana Book Award Honor Books, and Ben Armstrong’s Strange Trip Home, a

  • Visiting Writer’s Series – Eric Goodman Five time novelist, Eric Goodman will have a reading at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 14 in the Regency Room of the UC. There will be a Q & A with the writer at 3:30 p.m. that day at the…

    Arts, the Ragdale Foundation and the MacDowell Colony. His work appears in GQ, Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, Travel & Leisure, Saveur, and several anthologies. For the past decade, Goodman has directed the undergraduate and graduate creative writing program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. During that time he has organized and staged three major literary festivals: Diversity in African American Poetry; Translating Cultures: Latin American and Latina/o Writers Festival; and Miami

  • October is LGBTQIA+ History Month. While we encourage engaging with these topics year-round, October is a special time to reflect on the history of LGBTQIA+ movements, moments, and iconic figures. In this exhibit, the Center for DJS, in collaboration with the PLU Library, is choosing…

    Politics and the Limits of Law “Feminist Gloria Anzaldúa [1942-2004] was a guiding force in the Chicano and Chicana movement and lesbian/queer theory. She was a poet, activist, theorist, and teacher who lived from September 26, 1942, to May 15, 2004. Her writings blend styles, cultures, and languages, weaving together poetry, prose, theory, autobiography, and experimental narratives. She described herself as a “chicana dyke-feminist, tejana patlache poet, writer and cultural theorist,” and these