{"id":18765,"date":"2018-06-23T22:17:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T22:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/?post_type=stories&#038;p=18765"},"modified":"2023-07-18T21:30:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T21:30:21","slug":"alumni-bio-leann-bjerken","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/news\/alumni-bio-leann-bjerken\/","title":{"rendered":"LeAnn Bjerken"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Originally from Minnesota,\u00a0<strong>LeAnn Bjerken<\/strong>\u00a0is a 2014 graduate of the MFA program. Upon graduating she spent a year writing for the Colville Tribes\u2019 Tribal Tribune, earning a Native American Journalist Association award in 2015 for her feature story \u201cBuilding a Dream\u201d. She now works as a reporter for the\u00a0<em>Spokane Journal of Business<\/em>, and continues to submit her poetry and participate in local readings in her spare time. Her work has appeared in\u00a0<em>Miracle Magazine<\/em>, and several online magazines including\u00a0<em>Devilfish Review, The Artistic Muse, The Lake,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Fox Adoption Magazine.<\/em>\u00a0She and her husband Steve live in Spokane, with their cat Tikki.<\/div>\n<p>You can read LeAnn\u2019s work on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spokanejournal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Journal\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally from Minnesota,\u00a0LeAnn Bjerken\u00a0is a 2014 graduate of the MFA program. Upon graduating she spent a year writing for the Colville Tribes\u2019 Tribal Tribune, earning a Native American Journalist Association award in 2015 for her feature story \u201cBuilding a Dream\u201d. She now works as a reporter for the\u00a0Spokane Journal of Business, and continues to submit<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/news\/alumni-bio-leann-bjerken\/\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1285,"featured_media":18766,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-18765","stories","type-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","stories_categories-english-philosophy","stories_tags-mfa-alumni-bio"],"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\/18765","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\/18765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18795,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/18765\/revisions\/18795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}