Tag: MFA Alumni Bio

Since graduating from the MFA program in poetry, Ann Huston has pursued her dream job of being a park ranger. She has worked as seasonal park ranger at Capitol Reef National Park in Utah; Coronado National Memorial in Arizona; Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park in Alaska; and Chiricahua National Monument in AZ. These parks and…

Ruth Williams is the author of Flatlands (Black Lawrence Press, 2018), a full-length collection of poetry, as well as two poetry chapbooks,  Nursewfiery (Jacar Press, 2019) and Conveyance (Dancing Girl Press, 2012). Her poetry has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, jubilat, Pleiades, and Third Coast among others. She has also published creative nonfiction in Crab…

While an MFA student at EWU, Matthew Spaur served as fiction editor for Willow Springs and was nominated for the AWP Intro Awards. After graduating in 1998, he was the co-owner and publisher of Spokane’s The Local Planet Weekly, a nationally recognized weekly newspaper. In his memoir Making a Small Fortune, he writes about launching the newspaper while caring…

Ingrid (Johnson) Keriotis received her MFA from Eastern Washington University in 2000. Her poems have appeared in Blue Unicorn, Talking River, and the Summer 2016 issue of Poetry Now Online. She is also published in the 2011 anthology More Than Soil, More Than Sky. She teaches English at Sierra College in California and read as part of the Yuba Lit reading…

After graduating from EWU with her Masters in creative writing, Danielle Ward helped spread the joy of reading and writing as the Get Lit! Program Director from 2008 to 2011. She then moved to San Diego, California and became the Literary Manager at the San Diego REPertory Theatre. This includes reading over 250 plays a year and leading the selection of…

After receiving her MFA in fiction in 2004, Emily Van Kley quickly switched to writing poetry. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, The Iowa Review, Best New Poets, and Best American Poetry among others. She’s a recipient of the Iowa Review Award, the Florida Review Editor’s Award, and the Loraine Williams Prize from…

Tom C. Hunley  graduated from the MFA in 1996. He is a professor of English and Creative Writing at Western Kentucky University, where he has taught since 2003. His latest books are Adjusting to the Lights (winner of the 2020 Rattle Chapbook Prize) and What Feels Like Love: New and Selected Poems (C&R Press 2021).…

Kathryn Smith graduated from Eastern’s MFA program in 2004 with a focus in poetry. She is the author of Book of Exodus, which was published by Scablands Books in 2017. Her poems have appeared in Mid-American Review, Bellingham Review, Redivider, Southern Indiana Review, Carve Magazine, Third Coast, Rock & Sling, Ruminate, and elsewhere, and her work has been nominated for Best American…

Matthew Campbell Roberts was born in Napa, California, and attended a one-room schoolhouse in Wooden Valley set in the middle of a vineyard. He currently teaches English courses at Pierce College. His poems and other work appear in Clover, Cirque Journal, StringTown, Clackamas Review, The Adirondack Review, The Cortland Review, Whatcom Places II, The Kennesaw Review, Windfall, The Methow Naturalist, SmartishPace, Jeopardy and other literary…

Carol Ellis‘s volume of poetry, Catapult: Cancer with Ron, has been published by Gray Dog Press, 2016. Other poems have appeared online. Her essay, “In Defense of Ice,” was published by Penguin Classics and the Union of Concerned Scientists, 2009.