LeAnn Bjerken

Originally from Minnesota, LeAnn Bjerken is a 2014 graduate of the MFA program. Upon graduating she spent a year writing for the Colville Tribes’ Tribal Tribune, earning a Native American Journalist Association award in 2015 for her feature story “Building a Dream”. She now works as a reporter for the Spokane Journal of Business, and continues to submit her poetry and participate in local readings in her spare time. Her work has appeared in Miracle Magazine, and several online magazines including Devilfish Review, The Artistic Muse, The Lake, and Fox Adoption Magazine. She and her husband Steve live in Spokane, with their cat Tikki.