About

After a lifetime of writing and over twenty years of teaching experience, I retired from my full-time university faculty position to start my own writing studio and consulting agency in January 2018.

 

I wanted to take everything I loved about teaching at the university–connecting with students individually or in small groups, designing courses that engage my students and me, and tinkering with the ways we play and learn and grow–and combine those pieces with a lifestyle that embraces flexibility, creativity, healing, and culture, all rooted strongly in a sense of place.

 

I have an MFA in Writing from Pacific University, a BA in English Literature and Cultural Studies from Washington State University (WSU), a certificate in Social and Environmental Justice from WSU, and a certificate in Mythological Studies from The Hedge School in Ireland.

 

My award-winning creative writing has been published in High Desert Journal, Exponent II, Silk Road Review, GlassFire Magazine, Spark: A Creative Anthology, Soul Paws, and Ginosko Literary Journal. In 2016, I presented at TEDx Yakima on the value of a liberal arts education, and you can find my academic research in peerReview.