Hailey Canady (BA, 2019) works as a preschool teacher.
BA, 2016: Lauren Tucker
Lauren Tucker (BA, 2016) is an English teacher and yearbook/newspaper advisor at Sehome High School.
MFA, 2018: Emma Levy
Emma Levy (MFA, 2018) is a publishing assistant at Shelf Awareness. Her writing has been published in the Seattle Times, Shelf Awareness, and the Seattle Review of Books.
MFA, 2010: Laura Baker
Laura Baker (MFA, 2010) is an English teacher at Bellingham High School. She is featured in the soon to be released film Just Like the Men, based on a forgotten feminist screenplay by Pacific Northwest author Ella Higginson.
MFA, 2018: Karoline Shaufler
Karoline Shaufler (MFA, 2018) presented her essay “The Photographic Imagination: Contextualizing Ella Higginson’s Portrayal of the Pacific Northwest” at the 2020 Modern Language Association Convention in Seattle.
MFA, 2019: Hana Shishkarev
Hana Shishkarev (MFA, 2019) is working as the Lynden Club Director of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Whatcom County.
MFA, 2018: Kathryn Merwin
Kathryn Merwin (MFA, 2018) has her first collection, womanskin, forthcoming from Cutbank Books.
BA, 2018: Ari Koontz
Ari Koontz (BA, 2018) has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Under the Gum Tree for the creative non-fiction piece, “Bodies of Water.” Additionally, her essay “Uprooting” has been nominated by Sweet Tree.
BA, 1967: Vern Giesbrecht
Vern Giesbrecht (BA, 1967) has become a regular contributor to BC History Magazine, publishing eight articles since the Fall 2012 issue, as well as writing book reviews.