Rose Engelfried was honored to be offered admission to the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s Ph.D. program in Creative Writing and started there last fall.
Alyssa Quinn (MFA 2018)
Alyssa Quinn’s novel Habilis was accepted for publication by Dzanc Books and will be released in September.
Adam Kane (BA 2017)
Adam Kane’s illustrated poem “Expertise” appeared in the fall 2020 issue of the children’s literature magazine The Caterpillar, and he had two other sets of poems and drawings published in the spring 2021 issue of Leslie Magazine. Adam just finished his fourth year in the English Literature Ph.D. program at Boston University.
Katherine Sachs (BA 1996)
Katie Sachs graduated in 2020 from the University of Saint Francis in Joliet, Illinois, with a Master of Science in Training and Development.
Jon Kime (BA 1972)
Jon Kime credits Western for teaching him to write, really write, and thanks his long-retired professors for doing a great job. He has been teaching Lean Six Sigma in the Professional Development Center of the University of Washington’s Tacoma branch for ten years, and he recently had the thrill of learning to teach via Zoom in the middle of a quarter.
Heather Nisbet (BA 2018)
Heather Nisbet will attend Durham University in the United Kingdom this fall to obtain a Master’s in Literary Studies.
Alynn Sobolik (BA 2017)
Alynn Sobolik’s band Of the Heavy Sun received a good amount of radio attention this past year. Their latest songs played on KEXP and were featured on 99.9 KISW’s Loud and Local podcast.
Sloane Ralston (BA 2016)
After graduating from Western, Sloane Ralston pursued a Master’s in Library and Information Science at the University of Washington, earning the diploma this summer. Sloane now works remotely and part-time for the Seattle Public Schools Archives and is looking for a full-time position in academic libraries.
Jimmy Watts (BA 1999)
In fall 2020, Jimmy Watts had a long-form essay published in the famed quarterly The Flyfish Journal. The essay is about Death Cab for Cutie drummer and Bellingham local Jason McGerr and his time spent gathering on rivers with other musicians and writers.
Sandra Spicher (BA 1999)
Sandra Spicher edits and indexes books for authors and publishers. She has been freelancing since the end of her fellowship at the University of Texas Press in 2013, regularly copyedits for bestselling mystery writer Susan Wittig Albert, and has indexed many nonfiction books. One of the most important things she learned at Western was how to use a comma. She would like to thank Professor Kathryn Trueblood.