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Frances B. Huston Award Winners Every year seven students are chosen by each of CALE’s seven departments as the recipients of the Frances B. Huston Medallion. The Frances B. Huston Award is awarded to graduating seniors who have achieved academic excellence (3.75 or higher GPA) and have demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities at Eastern and/or in…

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.

A graduate of the class of 2016, Andrew Koch now lives in Denton, Texas where he is pursuing a creative writing PhD at the University of North Texas.  He is the author of the poetry chapbook, Brick-Woman (Hermeneutic Chaos, 2016) and serves as managing editor of the online journal Stirring: A Literary Collection. His work has recently appeared or is…

Originally from Minnesota, LeAnn Bjerken is a 2014 graduate of the MFA program. Upon graduating she spent a year writing for the Colville Tribes’ Tribal Tribune, earning a Native American Journalist Association award in 2015 for her feature story “Building a Dream”. She now works as a reporter for the Spokane Journal of Business, and continues to submit…

After graduating from the EWU MFA program in 2010, Brandon Getz lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Philadelphia, PA, before settling back in his home city of Pittsburgh. His first published piece, “Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before,” appeared in Versal #9 and was a joke story originally written for the EWU graduate-student reading series at the…

Yvonne Higgins Leach is the author of Another Autumn (WordTech Editions, 2014). Her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies. A native of Washington state, she earned a Master of Fine Arts from Eastern Washington University. She spent decades balancing a career in communications and public relations, raising a family, and pursuing her love of writing poetry.…

Seth Marlin is a former Web Editor of Willow Springs, and received his MFA in Fiction from Eastern in 2013. He is the author of Shred, a chapbook of poetry, and his stories and verse have appeared in Spark, Knockout, Betwixt, A cappella Zoo, and Silk Road Review, among others. He is the winner of University of Glasgow’s 2016 prize for Science Fiction…

Heather Solsvik has been an English teacher at Coeur d’Alene Charter Academy since 2001 and a resident of Coeur d’Alene her entire life. She enrolled in the EWU Creative Writing MFA program (non-fiction) while also teaching full-time, which made it possible for her to acquire her Master’s Degree while still working—a great bonus. She thoroughly…

Greg Leunig is a 2011 graduate of the Eastern Washington University MFA in fiction writing. While there, he was Web Editor for Willow Springs and dabbled in the Writers in the Community program as well. His short stories can be found in Daily Science Fiction, Read Short Fiction, Shimmer, and others. His poetry can be found at Strange Horizons and Apex. His day job…