LeAnne Laux-Bachand (MA, 2013) recently accepted the position of Coordinator of First-Year Writing at the University of Washington Tacoma, where she has been teaching since Fall 2013.
BA, 2017: Alynn Sobolik
Alynn Sobolik (BA, 2017) released her first full-length album, titled “Survivor”, on March 20th, 2020 and is available for streaming and downloading on Bandcamp, Soundcloud, and YouTube. She has also joined the psychedelic rock band Of the Heavy Sun.
BA, 2018: Elijah Schenk
Elijah Schenk (BA, 2018), following his year of service with the AmeriCorps Community Technology Empowerment Project in Saint Paul, MN and some time spent working as a Special Education Instructional Assistant with ELL students San Jose, has been hired by the State of Oregon Employment Department where he will continue a Public Service career in the position of Business & Employment.
MFA, 2017: Megan Speigel
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.