{"id":18753,"date":"2018-06-23T22:11:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T22:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/?post_type=stories&#038;p=18753"},"modified":"2023-07-18T21:30:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T21:30:41","slug":"alumni-bio-yvonne-higgins-leach","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/news\/alumni-bio-yvonne-higgins-leach\/","title":{"rendered":"Yvonne Higgins Leach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Yvonne Higgins Leach<\/strong>\u00a0is the author of\u00a0<em>Another Autumn<\/em>\u00a0(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. Now a full-time poet, she splits her time living on Vashon Island and Spokane, Washington.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/yvonnehigginsleach.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">yvonnehigginsleach.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of Yvonne\u2019s memories from her time in the program:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI was in the EWU MFA program from 1983-1989, and was fortunate enough to study poetry under Jim McAuley and Bill O\u2019Daly. I learned a tremendous amount from both of them. I also took a few fiction courses from the esteemed John Keeble. During my time in the program, I was honored to be part of the poetry editorial staff of\u00a0<em>Willow Springs.\u00a0<\/em>I also functioned as a TA of English Composition for two years and taught Creative Writing 101 the second year. I lived on the lower South Hill during those years and commuted to campus in my little Toyota Starlet. I remember a few winters the snow being as high as the windows of my car. I put myself through the graduate program by waiting tables and working the bar at the then Black Angus (now Anthony\u2019s).\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yvonne Higgins Leach\u00a0is the author of\u00a0Another Autumn\u00a0(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.<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/news\/alumni-bio-yvonne-higgins-leach\/\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1285,"featured_media":18754,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-18753","stories","type-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","stories_categories-english-philosophy","stories_tags-mfa-alumni-bio","stories_tags-mfa-alumni-testimonial"],"acf":{"subheading":"MFA Alumni Bio","featured_image_format":"cover","display_byline":false,"display_date_published":false,"featured_video":"","Links":false,"Resources":false,"page_hide_sidebar":false,"page_enable_page_nav":false,"display_featured_image":true},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/18753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/18753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18799,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/18753\/revisions\/18799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}