Tag: MFA Alumni Bio

After graduating in 1996 (poetry), Daryl Muranaka spent three years in Fukui, Japan in the JET Program, realizing a childhood dream of living in Japan. While there, he fulfilled his adolescent dream of becoming a black belt in aikido. He lives in Massachusetts with his family. In his spare time, he still enjoys aikido when he can…

Scott Kinder-Pyle loiters along the Spokane River, where, as an adjunct professor of philosophy at Eastern Washington, Spokane Community College and Gonzaga University, he’s reduced to nine poetic fingers. There are framed pieces of paper on the walls of Scott’s study from Princeton Theological Seminary (MDiv, 1988), from Columbia Theological Seminary (DMin, 2008) and from Eastern…

Laura Ender earned her MFA in fiction from Eastern Washington University, where she worked as an assistant managing editor for Willow Springs. Her short fiction has appeared in One Teen Story, Indiana Review, Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere. She is a blogger, cartoonist, and bookseller and has been working a young adult literature. Find out more at lauraender.wordpress.com.

Holly Williams Doering grew up in a USFS family in the mountains of McCall, Idaho. She wandered through the world in her youth: Studying literature at University of Idaho, teaching English in Tokyo, Japan;  bicycling through India, Thailand, and Malaysia;  then teaching inmates to read at the Rappahannock Regional Jail in Virginia. Afterward, she was accepted into…

Sandra Hosking (’04) is a professional writer and photographer based in Spokane, WA. Her work has appeared in 3 Elements Review, Joey, Edify Fiction, West Texas Review, Redactions, Glass International, The Spokesman-Review, Journal of Business, Inland NW Homes & Lifestyles, Down to Earth NW, Insight for Playwrights, and various anthologies. Hosking’s plays have been performed across the U.S. and internationally, including the Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Samuel…