Megan Speigel (MFA, 2017) had a chapbook, Luminance, published by Dancing Girl Press in October 2019, and a hybrid essay published in Inverted Syntax print issue 2, February 2020.
BA, 2019: Dylan Church
Dylan Church (BA, 2019) has been accepted into the University of New Orleans’ Creative Writing Workshop where he will pursue an MFA in poetry beginning Fall 2020.
BA, 1991: David Wallis
David Wallis (BA, 1991) has recently accepted a position at the Washington Department of Labor & Industries as an IT portfolio manager.
MFA, 2014: Lee Olsen
Lee Olsen (MFA, 2014) has co-published Ethics After Postculturalism along with colleagues Brendan Johnston and Ann Keniston. He currently lectures at University of Nevada, Reno.
MA, 2005: Anne Greenfield
Anne Greenfield (MA, 2005) has been awarded promotion to Full Professor of English at Valdosta State University and has recently published the edited collection: Castration, Impotence, and Emasculation in the Long Eighteenth Century (Routledge 2020).
BA, 2012: Julia Hjelte
Julia Hjelte (BA, 2012) is working on her first novel and has created the website “Stories of COVID-19” (https://www.storiesofcovid-19.com/). The mission statement is as follows:
“Stories of COVID-19 is a Seattle-based project seeking to call attention to how each and every one of us is affected by the COVID-19 outbreak by providing a platform for individuals to tell their stories in their own words. We believe that the impacts of the outbreak are not due merely to COVID-19 itself, but rather are symptoms of a longtime broken and unequal system. As a result, not only do we seek to use this platform to ensure every voice is heard, but to show our officials that for us, change is not an option. It is a necessity.”
BA, 2014: Carlee Wilson
Carlee Wilson (BA, 2014) is currently a masters student in Conflict Transformation and Social Justice at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland.
BA 1962: Nora Smith
Nora Smith (BA 1962) is currently “locked up”, like most people are today, in a retirement home in Vancouver, WA. She enjoys hearing from fellow graduates who are in different parts of the state.
MA, 1976: Tom Martinsen
Tom Martinsen (MA, 1976) published a poem in the literary magazine at a college where he taught and an essay in the union magazine in of which he was a member. He has also published opinion pieces in his local paper. He is currently six years into retirement and is curious about people with whom he attended graduate school at Western.
MA, 2011: Tanya Perkins
Tanya Perkins (MA, 2011) earned her MFA at Murray State and is now the Chair of the English Department at Indiana University East. In 2018 she published a chapbook through WTAW Press as well as numerous short stories and pieces on teaching writing. Her current research focuses on creative writing pedagogy and program assessment.