Category: English & Philosophy

Every November the National Council of Teachers of English hosts a convention where thousands of educators, experts, authors, administrators, publishers, and more travel to Baltimore, Maryland to attend workshops, listen to keynote speakers, make presentations, etc. For the past four years, professor Shelly Shaffer has had the honor of taking a few of her students…

Adam Walsh is an Assistant Professor in the Languages and Humanities Department of the Northern Marianas College (NMC), located in Micronesia. He has been teaching on the island of Saipan since 2010 with a brief stint in Japan. His poetry appears in The Journal, the Hawaii Review, Barrow Street, The Istanbul Review, BlazeVOX, Shark Reef, the Lummox Journal, and Crab Creek…

Kate Peterson earned her MFA from Eastern Washington University in Spokane, where she now works as the director of Get Lit! Programs. Her poetry and prose has been published in Glassworks, The Sierra Nevada Review, Barnstorm, Sugar House Review, Hawai’i Pacific Review, Aethlon, Packingtown Review, among others. Her chapbook Grist won the 2016 Floating Bridge Chapbook Prize and was published in October, 2016. Learn…

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…