Archive: stories

Born and raised in the deciduous greenery of eastern Kansas, Melissa Rhoades moved to the Evergreen State in 2001 to attend EWU. After receiving her MFA in 2003, Melissa taught English Composition and Intro to Literature at Big Bend Community College and Spokane Falls Community College before accepting a full time position as an in-house copywriter for…

Kathryn Collison (nee Allen) earned her MFA in poetry from EWU in 2006. Since 2007, she has taught in the Honors College at the University of New Mexico. She teaches humanities, writing and speaking, and fine arts classes. She was also faculty advisor for the award-winning Honors College literary magazine Scribendi in 2007-2008. She serves as an Honors…

J. Duncan Wiley earned his MFA in Fiction from EWU in 2006, and since his fiction has been anthologized in Best Small Fictions 2015 and has appeared in Pleiades, Cream City Review, South Dakota Review, and Nimrod where his short story “Inclusions” won the 2015 Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction. His essays have appeared in Pleiades and Bayou Magazine. In addition to his…

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…

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…

Admitted Students Day was held again in April on four consecutive Fridays. This annual event, sponsored by Admissions, is an opportunity for admitted students and their families to come to campus, receive tours and meet faculty in their programs of interest. The event provides an opportunity for students to really get to know the campus…