Tag: MFA Alumni Bio

Gabrielle “Rie” Lee is a California-based writer and editor. She has a BFA in Dance Choreography and a BA in English from the UC Irvine, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Eastern Washington University. She loves pizza, is BFFs with The Chicago Manual of Style, and has a mild case of hyphenitis. Serving as Managing Editor for Willow…

Kathryn Nuernberger is the author of two poetry collections, The End of Pink (BOA, 2016) and Rag & Bone (Elixir, 2011). Her collection of lyric essays, Brief Interviews with the Romantic Past won the Non/Fiction prize fro OSU Press and will be released in 2017. She is the recipient of research fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society and The Bakken Museum of…

After graduating with his MFA in Fiction from EWU in 2000, Jeff Fearnside fulfilled a longtime dream by serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Central Asia for two years, remaining in the region for four years in all. He is the author of the short-story collection Making Love While Levitating Three Feet in the Air (Stephen F. Austin…

Shawn Vestal’s debut novel, Daredevils, was published in spring 2016 by Penguin Press. His collection of short stories, Godforsaken Idaho, was published in 2013 and won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, which honors a debut book that “represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise.” He also published A.K.A. Charles Abbott, a short memoir, as an e-book in…

Summer Hess:  “I had the opportunity to travel to New Zealand with my partner as he conducts doctoral research at the University of Canterbury on a Fulbright Fellowship through the end of 2016. What an amazing and diverse experience it has been! Here’s what I’ve been up to since taking to life on the road: I am working on…

Kimberly Lambright‘s work has appeared in Columbia Poetry Review, ZYZZYVA, Sink Review, Bone Bouquet, The Boiler, Wicked Alice, and Big Bridge. Her first full-length collection of poems, Ultra-Cabin (2016), won the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award. She is a MacDowell Colony fellow and holds an MFA from Eastern Washington University (2006) and an MA in humanities from NYU (2012). She lives in Austin,…

Wendy J. Fox (’01) is the author of the collection The Seven Stages of Anger and Other Stories (winner of the Press 53 award for short fiction in 2014), the short story collection What if We Were Somewhere Else (2021) and the novel The Pull of It (Underground Voices, 2016). Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in ZZYZZVA, Washington Square, The Tampa…

Jessica Lakritz’s dream is to live without manmade clocks. So far, it has been successful intermittently, and she has been able to work online in mainly freelance writing, tutoring, and editing for the past three years. Since graduating from Eastern in 2010, Jessica has lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Portland, Oregon, Zihuatanejo, Mexico,…

Tom Holmes (class of ’04) is the editor of Redactions: Poetry & Poetics. He is also author of: The Cave, which won The Bitter Oleander Press Library of Poetry Book Award for 2013; Poems for an Empty Church (Palettes & Quills Press, 2011); The Oldest Stone in the World (Amsterdam Press, 2011); Henri, Sophie, & the Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound: Poems Blasted…

Class of 2010 nonfiction graduate Asa Maria Bradley sold her debut novel in a three-book deal to Sourcebooks. The first book in her paranormal romance series, Viking Warrior Rising, was a double finalist in the Romance Writers of America’s RITA awards for Best First Book and Best Paranormal Romance. The second book, Viking Warrior Rebel, earned 4.5 stars and…