Category: English & Philosophy

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…

MFA alum, Kathryn Nuernberger’s book The End of Pink received the 2015 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, which is given to recognize a superior second book of poetry by an American poet. It was published by BOA Editions in 2016. Her debut poetry collection, Rag & Bone, won the Antivenom Prize from Elixir…

2014 graduate of Eastern’s MFA program in poetry, Kate Peterson’s chapbook Grist won the 2016 Floating Bridge Chapbook Prize and was published in October of 2016.            

MFA in poetry alum, Kimberly Lambright’s debut poetry collection Ultra-Cabin won the 42 Miles Press poetry award and was published in the fall of 2016. Here is what Chris Howell, professor Emeritus at Eastern’s MFA program, has to say about the collection: “I am stunned by Kimberly Lambright’s verbal acuity, its lightning shifts and sudden,…

2001 MFA alum in fiction, Wendy J. Fox, just published a short story collection titled The Seven Stages of Anger and Other Stories. Wendy is originally from Denver, Colorado and her short story collection was named the winner of the 2014 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction. Her manuscript was selected by Kevin Morgan Watson and Christine…

MFA in poetry alum, Tim Greenup’s debut poetry collection Without Warning was published in 2016 by Scablands Books. Tim’s poems have appeared in several journals including Midwestern Gothic, BOAAT, and Redivider. He teaches English at Spokane Falls Community College.