Valerie Nyberg (BAE, 1999) is the new principal of Ames High School in Ames, Iowa.
BA, 2006: Matthew Campell Roberts
Matthew Campell Roberts (BA, 2006) has published his first collection of poetry, A River Once More, through MoonPass Press. He currently teaches at Everett Community College.
BA, 2019: Chris Lovgreen
Chris Lovgreen (BA, 2019) is a graduate student and teaching assistant in Western’s Master’s in English program.
BA, 2019: Hailey Canady
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.