THE RAINIER WRITING WORKSHOP MFA @ PLU Faculty Biographies

Rick Barot has published two books of poetry with Sarabande Books: The Darker Fall (2002), which received the Kathryn A. Morton Prize, and Want (2008), which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and won the 2009 Grub Street Book Prize. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Artist Trust of Washington, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace E. Stegner Fellow and a Jones Lecturer in Poetry. His poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Poetry, The Paris Review, The New Republic, Ploughshares, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Threepenny Review. His work has been included in many anthologies, including Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century, Asian-American Poetry: The Next Generation, Language for a New Century, and The Best American Poetry 2012. His third collection, Chord, will be published by Sarabande in 2015. He lives in Tacoma, WA and is an associate professor of English at Pacific Lutheran University. For many years he was on the faculty of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. He is now the director of the Rainier Writing Workshop.

Suzanne Berne is the author of three novels: The Ghost at the Table (2006), which was chosen as one the Best Books of 2006 by the Boston Globe; A Perfect Arrangement (2001), a New York Times Notable Book; and A Crime in the Neighborhood (1998), winner of Great Britain’s Orange Prize. Her first book of nonfiction is Missing Lucile: Memories of a Grandmother I Never Knew (2010). She has written frequently for the New York Times and her short stories and essays have been published in such places as The Threepenny Review, Agni, Vogue, Ploughshares, The Boston Globe, and The London Sunday Times. She is also the fiction editor for the Harvard Review. Her new novel The Dogs of Littlefield was published by Penguin in the UK and nominated for the Bailey Prize (formerly the Orange Prize). Simon & Schuster will soon publish the novel in the US. She lives outside of Boston and teaches creative writing at Boston College.

Linda Bierds’ ninth book of poetry, Roget’s Illusion, was published in 2014 by Putnam’s. Her prizes include the PEN/West Poetry Award, two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, four Pushcart Prizes, the Consuelo Ford Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Virginia Quarterly Review’s Emily Clark Balch Poetry Prize, and fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In 1998 she was named a Fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Bierds’s poems have appeared in numerous publications, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Smithsonian, and Poetry. She teaches at the University of Washington and lives on Bainbridge Island.

David Biespiel is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Charming Gardeners. Previous collections include Shattering Air, Pilgrims & Beggars, Wild Civility, and The Book of Men and Women, which was named among the Best Poetry of the year by the Poetry Foundation and was selected by Robert Pinsky for the Oregon Book Award. His anthology, Long Journey: Contemporary Northwest Poets, received the William Stafford Memorial Award from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. His book on writing and creativity, Every Writer Has a Thousand Faces, is based on his 2009 lecture at RWW and has sold out several editions. In the fall of 2014, Everyman’s Library will publish his edition of Poems of the American South. In addition, he writes the Poetry Wire column for The Rumpus, has served on the board of the National Book Critics Circle, was editor of Poetry Northwest from 2005-2010, is a frequent political contributor to Politico, has contributed to the New York Times Book Review, Poetry magazine, Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Sewanee Review, Poetry International, Zyzzyva, and elsewhere, and has lectured at many colleges and universities, including Stanford University, University of Maryland, Wake Forest University, and Oregon State University, where he has taught creative writing and literature since 1999. Recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, he is the president of the Attic Institute in Portland.

Mary Clearman Blew’s most recent book is This Is Not the Ivy League: a Memoir. Her fiction collection, Runaway, won a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, as did her memoir All But the Waltz: Essays on a Montana Family. A novel, Jackalope Dreams, won the 2008 Western Heritage Award. She teaches creative writing at the University of Idaho.

Barrie Jean Borich is the author of Body Geographic (University of Nebraska Press/American Lives Series), winner of a Lambda Literary Award in Memoir and an IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Award) Gold Medal in Essay/Creative Nonfiction. Her previous book, My Lesbian Husband (Graywolf), won the ALA Stonewall Book Award. Her work has been cited in Best American Essays and Best American Non-Required Reading and she’s currently working on a book-length essay about repurposed industrial landscapes, urban joy, and riding her bicycle on the mean streets of Chicago. Borich was the first creative nonfiction editor of Hamline University’s Water~Stone Review and is currently a member of the creative writing faculty of the English Department/MA in Writing & Publishing Program at Chicago’s DePaul University, where she’s developing Slag Glass City, a creative nonfiction and new media journal focused on sustainability, identity and the arts in urban environments. Borich earned her MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop and lives now with her spouse Linnea, a few blocks from Lake Michigan, in the Boystown neighborhood of Chicago, which was recently voted the most “incomparable” gayborhood in the world.

Fleda Brown’s eighth collection of poems, No Need of Sympathy, was published by BOA Editions, LTD in 2013. Her collection of essays, with Vermont Poet Laureate Sydney Lea, Growing Old in Poetry: Two Poets, Two Lives, also came out in 2013 from Autumn House Books. Her memoir is Driving With Dvorak (University of Nebraska Press, 2010). Fleda’s work has appeared in Best American Poetry, has won a Pushcart Prize, the Felix Pollak Prize, the Philip Levine Prize, and the Great Lakes Colleges New Writer’s Award. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Kenyon Review, Southern Poetry Review, American Poetry Review, The Georgia Review, and many other journals and anthologies, and they have been used as texts for several prizewinning musical compositions performed at Eastman School of Music, Yale University, and by the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble. She has won the New Letters and the Ohio State Univ/ The Journal awards for creative nonfiction. She has written on teaching poetry and on the craft of writing, and she is co- editor of Critical Essays on D.H. Lawrence (G.K. Hall). She is professor emerita at the University of Delaware, where she taught for 27 years and directed the Poets in the Schools program. She was poet laureate of Delaware from 2001-07. She and her husband now live in Traverse City, Michigan.

David Allan Cates is the author of five novels, including 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 Gold Medalist in the Independent Book Publishers Book Awards. His fifth novel, Tom Connor’s Gift, is due out in the fall of 2014. The winner of the 2010 Montana Arts Council’s Artist Innovation Award in 2010, his stories and poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines, and his travel articles in Outside Magazine and the New York Times Sophisticated Traveler. Cates is the executive director of Missoula Medical Aid, which leads groups of medical professionals to provide public health and surgery services in Honduras. In Missoula he has worked with the Missoula Writing Collaborative, teaching classes on short story writing in high schools, and the 406 writing workshop. For many years he worked as a fishing guide on the Smith River and raised cattle on his family farm in Wisconsin.

Kevin Clark’s book, Self-Portrait with Expletives, won the 2009 Pleiades Press book contest and is distributed by LSU Press. His first full-length collection of poetry, In the Evening of No Warning, was published by New Issues Press. His poems have appeared in numerous magazines and collections, including The Antioch Review, The Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, Ploughshares, Crazyhorse, and The Iowa Review. He also won the Angoff Award from The Literary Review for best contribution in a volume year. Kevin’s textbook, The Mind's Eye: A Guide to Writing Poetry, is published by Pearson Longman. Having recently co-written a play with his son, he’s presently working on a verse novel. Kevin has published essays about numerous contemporary American poets. His critical articles and reviews have appeared in many journals and collections, among them The Iowa Review, Papers on Language and Literature, The Southern Review, Contemporary Literary Criticism, The Georgia Review, and Poetry International. He was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, CA, where he teaches poetry writing and modern and contemporary American literature. Still attempting slow pitch softball and fast pitch baseball, he lives in San Luis Obispo with his family. 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. His poems, essays, reviews, and articles have appeared in dozens of periodicals and anthologies, among them The American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, Shenandoah, The Kenyon Review, Yellow Silk, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, and The ‘Poetry’ Anthology, 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.

Gary Ferguson has established himself as an expert chronicler of nature over the past twenty-five years, having written for a wide variety of publications, from Vanity Fair to The Los Angeles Times. He is the author of twenty-two books on science and nature, including the award-winning Hawk’s Rest, published by National Geographic Adventure Press. Gary’s latest book is a memoir, The Carry Home, which will be published in 2014 by Counterpoint Press. He was the William Kittredge Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Montana, a Seigel Scholar at Washington University in Saint Louis, and a visiting writer for the graduate writing program at the University of Idaho.

Greg Glazner’s books of poetry are From the Iron Chair and Singularity, both published by W.W. Norton. His awards include The Walt Whitman Award, The Bess Hokin Award from Poetry, and an NEA Fellowship. Excerpts from his recently-completed multi-genre novel, Opening the World, have appeared in Poetry (feature), Ploughshares, The Idaho Review, Seneca Review, and other magazines. His band, Professor Len and the Big Night, combines a literary reading with live music. An electric guitarist as well as a writer, he is currently collaborating with the composer Garrett Shatzer on a blues- influenced piece in the art song tradition to be sung by the tenor David Saul Lee, accompanied by CityWater New Music Ensemble. In addition to writing the text, Glazner will play electric guitar with CityWater in Bay Area performances. When he’s not teaching at PLU or at UC Davis, where he is a Visiting Writer, he lives in Creede, Colorado with his partner, the writer Pam Houston.

Kevin Goodan was born in Montana and raised on the Flathead Indian Reservation where his stepfather and brothers are tribal members. Goodan earned his BA from the University of Montana and worked as a firefighter for ten years with the U.S. Forest Service before receiving his MFA from University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 2004. Goodan’s first collection of poetry, In the Ghost-House Acquainted (2004), won The L.L. Winship/ PEN New England Award in 2005. His other books include Winter Tenor (2009), and Upper Level Disturbances (2012), the forthcoming Forward Observer: Prophesies (2014), and Let The Voices (2015). Goodan has taught at the University of Connecticut, and has served as Visiting Writer at Wesleyan University. He is currently Associate Professor at Lewis-Clark State College and resides in Joel, Idaho.

Adrianne Harun is the author of a novel, A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain (Penguin 2014) and a collection of stories, The King of Limbo and Other Stories (Houghton Mifflin 2002), a Sewanee Writers’ Series selection and a Washington State Book Award finalist. Her stories have been published widely, garnering awards from the Chicago Tribune (Nelson Algren Award), Story, and other journals, and have been listed as Distinguished in Best American Mystery Stories and Best American Short Stories. Her fiction has also been anthologized, most recently in Looking Together: Writers on Art (University of Washington Press). In addition, for over twenty years, Adrianne has worked on the editorial side of publishing, and she is also currently on the faculty of the Sewanee School of Letters at the University of the South.

Lola Haskins’ poetry has appeared in The Atlantic, The London Review of Books, The New York Quarterly, Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere, and has also been broadcast on NPR and BBC radio. Her awards include three book prizes, two NEA fellowships, four Florida Cultural Affairs fellowships, the Emily Dickinson Prize from Poetry Society of America, several prizes for narrative poetry and, in 2013, an award from Florida’s Eden (a consortium of artists) for her nature writing. Haskins has published twelve collections of poetry and three of prose. She is now shopping a book of poems set in Florida’s woods and waters, and is closing in on the next ms, which is about insects. In 2013, she finished a re-translation of Baudelaire, selected from Les Fleurs and Le Spleen de Paris, and in 2014, brought out a CD of poems chosen from her most recent collection, The Grace to Leave (with cello accompaniment). She has frequently worked with musicians, composers, visual artists, actors, and dancers. Her favorite collaborative experience was starring as the speaking Mata Hari in a full length ballet whose script she wrote for Dance Alive!, one of Florida’s two official touring dance companies.

Jim Heynen, best known for his short-short stories about “the boys,” has also published poems, novels, and nonfiction. His stories about the boys have been featured often on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, as well as on radio in both Sweden and Denmark. The most recent collection of these stories, The Boys' House, was named Editors’ Choice for Best Books of 2001 by The Bloomsbury Review, Newsday, and Booklist. Heynen lived for many years in the Northwest and received a Northwest Booksellers Award for one of his story collections, You Know What Is Right. He has received National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in both poetry and fiction and in 1978 was selected as a US/UK Bicentennial Exchange Fellowship to England. He has published two YA novels with Henry Holt, and his novel, The Fall of Alice K, was published by Milkweed Editions in 2013. A new book of short-shorts, Ordinary Sins: After Theophrastus, is scheduled for publication by Milkweed in the fall of 2014. Heynen lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

John Holman is the author of Squabble and Other Stories and Luminous Mysteries. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Mississippi Review, and Oxford American. A Whiting Award winner, he is co-director of the creative writing program at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. He has a new collection of stories forthcoming in 2015.

David Huddle holds degrees from the University of Virginia, Hollins College, and Columbia University. Originally from Ivanhoe, Virginia, he taught for 38 years at the University of Vermont, then served three years as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Hollins University. He also held the 2012-2013 Roy Acuff Chair of Excellence in the Creative Arts at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee. Huddle has continued to teach at the Bread Loaf School of English in Ripton, Vermont, and the Rainier Writing Workshop in Tacoma, Washington. In 2014 he will join the faculty of the Sewanee School of Letters. Huddle’s work has appeared in The American Scholar, Esquire, Appalachian Heritage, The New Yorker, Harper’s, Shenandoah, Agni, River and Sound Review, The New York Times, Field, Poetry, The Harvard Review, The Kenyon Review, TriQuarterly, and The Georgia Review. His novel, The Story of a Million Years (Houghton Mifflin, 1999) was named a Distinguished Book of the Year by Esquire and a Best Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times Book Review. His novel, Nothing Can Make Me Do This, won the 2012 Library of Virginia Award for Fiction and his collection, Black Snake at the Family Reunion, was a finalist for the 2013 Library of Virginia Award for Poetry and won the 2013 Pen New England Award for Poetry.

Judith Kitchen is the co-founder of the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA program at PLU. She is the author of four collections of essays, most recently The Circus Train (Ovenbird Books, 2014). Her other collections are Half in Shade: Family, Photography, Fate and Distance and Direction (Coffeehouse Press) and Only the Dance (U. of South Carolina Press). She is also the author of a novel, The House on Eccles Road, 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 has 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. 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 has 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 is an Advisory and Contributing Editor for The Georgia Review where she has regularly reviewed poetry for over twenty-five years. She has the distinction of being called—by Newsday—the Evel Knievel of literature.

Dinah Lenney wrote Bigger than Life: A Murder, a Memoir, published in the American Lives Series at the University of Nebraska Press, and co-authored Acting for Young Actors. Her prose has been published in many journals and anthologies, among them The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Creative Nonfiction, The Washington Post, The Kenyon Review Online, AGNI, The Harvard Review Online, Water~Stone and Brevity. Dinah serves as core faculty in the Bennington Writing Seminars as well as in the Master of Professional Writing Program at USC, and she’s the editor of creative nonfiction at the Los Angeles Review of Books. Her new book, The Object Parade, will be published by Counterpoint Press in 2014.

Rebecca McClanahan’s tenth book is The Tribal Knot: A Memoir of Family, Community, and a Century of Change. She has also published five books of poetry, three books of writing instruction, and The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings, winner of the Glasgow Award in nonfiction. The fifteenth anniversary edition of McClanahan’s Word Painting: A Guide To Writing More Descriptively, will be released in November 2014. Her work has appeared in Best American Essays, Best American Poetry, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Sun, and numerous anthologies. McClanahan has received the Wood Prize from Poetry, a Pushcart Prize in Fiction, the Carter Prize for the Essay, and literary fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council.

Kent Meyers is the author of a memoir, a book of short fiction, and three novels, most recently Twisted Tree, which won a Society of Midland Authors award and a High Plains Book award, and was translated into French. The River Warren and Light In the Crossing were New York Times Notable Books, and The Work Of Wolves won the Mountain and Plains Booksellers Association Award and an American Library Association Award. Meyers has published fiction and essays in numerous literary journals. He teaches at Black Hills State University in South Dakota and in Pacific Lutheran University’s Rainier Writing Workshop.

Brenda Miller is the author of three essay collections: Listening Against the Stone (Skinner House Books, 2012), Blessing of the Animals (Eastern Washington University Press, 2009), and Season of the Body (Sarabande Books, 2002). She has also co-authored Tell It Slant: Creating, Refining and Publishing Creative Nonfiction (McGraw Hill, 2012) and The Pen and The Bell: Mindful Writing in a Busy World (Skinner House Books, 2012). Her work has received six Pushcart Prizes. She is a Professor of English at Western Washington University and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Bellingham Review.

Scott Nadelson is the author of three story collections, most recently Aftermath, and a memoir, The Next Scott Nadelson: A Life in Progress. His stories and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, New England Review, The Southern Review, Crazyhorse, Prairie Schooner, and Alaska Quarterly Review, and have been cited as notable in both 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.

Ann Pancake’s novel, Strange As This Weather Has Been (Counterpoint 2007) was a New York Times Editor’s Choice, the winner of the 2007 Weatherford Award, and a finalist for the 2008 Orion Book Award and the Washington State Book Award. Her collection of short stories, Given Ground, won the 2000 Bakeless award and was published by the University Press of New England in 2001. Other prizes she has received include a Whiting Award, an NEA Grant, a Pushcart Prize, the New Millennium Award for creative nonfiction, and creative writing fellowships from the states of Washington, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Her fiction and essays have appeared in journals and anthologies like Orion, The Georgia Review, Poets and Writers, and New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best. She holds a Ph.D in English literature from the University of Washington. Her new collection of short stories, Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley, will be published by Counterpoint in 2015.

Lia Purpura is the author of seven collections of essays, poems and translations, most recently, Rough Likeness (essays) and King Baby (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. Her new collection of poems, It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful, is forthcoming from Viking/Penguin in 2015. She lives in Baltimore with her family.

Stan Sanvel Rubin is founding director of the Rainier Writing Workshop at PLU. He served for over twenty years as Director of the Brockport Writers Forum and Videotape Library (SUNY), a multi-faceted literary arts program. He holds the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. His most recent book of poetry is There. Here. (Lost Horse Press, 2013). Other books include The Post-Confessionals, a collection of his interviews with contemporary American poets, published by Associated University Presses; Hidden Sequel, winner of the Barrow Street Book Award for 2005; Lost and Midnight, both from State Street Press; On the Coast, a chapbook (Pudding House, 2002); and Five Colors, from CustomWords (WordTech). His poems have appeared in such magazines as The Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry Northwest, The Georgia Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Chelsea, Iowa Review and several anthologies. He was awarded a 2002 Constance J. Saltonstall Foundation Grant in poetry. He regularly writes essay-reviews of contemporary poetry for the journal, Water-Stone Review.

Marjorie Sandor is the author of four books, most recently The Late Interiors: A Life Under Construction (Arcade/Skyhorse Publishing 2011). Her story collection, Portrait of my Mother, Who Posed Nude in Wartime (Sarabande Books), won the 2004 National Jewish Book Award in Fiction, and an essay collection, The Night Gardener: A Search for Home (The Lyons Press) won the 2000 Oregon Book Award for literary non-fiction. Her stories and essays have appeared in such journals as The Georgia Review, AGNI, The Hopkins Review and The Harvard Review, and has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, Pushcart Prize, Twenty Under Thirty, and elsewhere. Her own anthology, The Uncanny Reader, a selection of thirty-one disturbing short stories from 1817 to the present, is due out from St. Martin’s Press in Fall 2014. She lives in Corvallis, Oregon and is on the faculty of Oregon State University’s MFA Program in Creative Writing.

Peggy Shumaker has published seven books and two chapbooks of poetry. Her newest work is Toucan Nest, Poems of Costa Rica. Her lyrical memoir is Just Breathe Normally. Shumaker is Professor emerita from University of Alaska Fairbanks. She is founding editor of Boreal Books, publisher of fine art and literature from Alaska. She also edits the Alaska Literary Series at University of Alaska Press. Shumaker was Alaska State Writer Laureate for 2010-2012.

Sherry Simpson is the author of Dominion of Bears: Living with Wildlife in Alaska and two collections of essays, The Accidental Explorer: Wayfinding in Alaska and The Way Winter Comes, which won the inaugural Chinook Literary Prize. She has also written four travel books, most recently Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, which received the Benjamin Franklin Award in the travel essay and photography category. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including Orion, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, Superstition Review, AQR, and Bellingham Review. Her essays have appeared in such anthologies as On Nature: Great Writers on the Great Outdoors, American Nature Writing, The Fourth Genre, Living Blue in the Red States, and In Fact, the best of Creative Nonfiction journal. She has received the Andrés Berger Nonfiction Award and Sierra magazine’s Nature Writing Award, and she was a finalist for the Katharine Nason Bakeless Nonfiction Literary Publication Prize, sponsored by Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She is a professor of creative nonfiction writing in the Low-Residency MFA program at the University of Alaska Anchorage and serves on the faculty of the Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference.

[Updated June, 2014]