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Brenda Miller is the author of Season of the Body (Sarabande Books, 2002) and co-author of Tell it Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction (McGraw-Hill, 2003). Her newest collection of essays, Blessing of the Animals, was released by Eastern Washington University Press on February 1, 2009. Her work has received five Pushcart Prizes and has been published in many journals, including Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, The Sun, Utne Reader, The Georgia Review, and The Missouri Review. She is an Associate Professor of English at Western Washington University and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Bellingham Review.

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Graduate Program

Our graduate program in English offers nationally competitive graduate stipends with opportunities to teach a wide range of courses. Graduate students receive generous travel funding and have the opportunity for editorial fellowships and service experience on New Ohio Review, Quarter after Eight, and Brevity.

Two of our current creative writing PhD students have published award-winning books of poetry with university presses, while many other graduate students are publishing poems, stories, and essays in literary magazines.

Graduate Students in our literature and rhetoric and composition tracks have the opportunity to help organize and participate in our Humor in English Studies conference and read in our quarterly Chestnut Reading Series. Many students at both the MA and PhD level have published articles and presented at conferences on subjects ranging from new media rhetoric to gender issues in Chaucer.

Our program is small by design, and we have enjoyed tremendous success in the past five years placing our PhD graduates into tenure-track teaching jobs, while many of our MA graduates have moved on to top MFA or PhD programs elsewhere.

Undergraduate Program

Our undergraduates choose an emphasis in creative writing, literature, or secondary education and have the option of completing a senior thesis as part of the honors tutorial college.

There are also opportunities to serve on the editorial staff of Sphere, our undergraduate-run literary journal, and many English majors participate in the University’s chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honors society. Successful graduates go on to law school, graduate school, public school teaching, editing, publishing, and more. For further information, click here.

Amber Burton--Anthony DeJovine Scholarship

Aaron Smith--Dean McWilliams Scholarship

Michael Dalton Gray--Maria Grover Cherrington

Leslie Albanese--Virginia Knecht Memorial Award

Sean Tyler Flynn and Bailey Shoemaker Richards--The Hollis Summers Award in English

Taryn Lentes, Bernice Essig, and Audrey K. Wallis--Joyce Durham Award

Ryan Adamic--Lillias Young Swardson Scholarship

Annmarie Steffes and Matt Townsley--Outstanding Senior Thesis

Alicia Buckenmeyer--Outstanding Senior Leadership Award

Academic Achievement Awards

John Woods--Outstanding Senior Academic Achievement

Alexandra Shostak--Outstanding Sophomore

Leslie Albanese--Outstanding Junior

Graduate Awards

Wendy Walker--Earl and Margaret Shively Scholarship

Todd Snyder--Outstanding Graduate TA- College Award

Dave Wancyzk--Outstanding Graduate TA- Department Award

Joey Franklin--Philip and Kathleen Emily Tice Award