Diana Abu-Jaber earned a PhD in Creative Writing from SUNY Binghamton. Her first novel, Arabian Jazz, published by Harcourt Brace in 1993, won the Oregon Book Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Abu-Jaber has also published numerous short stories electronically and in literary magazines such as Ploughshares, the North American Review, and Story. Her latest novel, Crescent, was publish in 2003. She teaches Creative Writing, Feminist Voices, Middle Eastern Literatures, and Postcolonial Literatures.

Michele Glazer earned an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and teaches graduate and undergraduate poetry writing, and literature classes with a focus on poetry. Her books are It Is Hard to Look at What We Came to Think We'd Come to See (AWP Award in Poetry, pub. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997) and Aggregate of Disturbances (Iowa Prize, pub. University of Iowa Press, 2004). Periodicals in which her poems have appeared include The Harvard Review, Ploughshares, Field, Colorado Review, Volt, and College English. Her work has also been included in several anthologies. Glazer has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Regional Arts and Culture Council, and Oregon's Literary Arts, Inc.

Duncan Carter, PhD, is the Assistant Chair of the Department of English and Director of the Writing Across the Curriculum Program at PSU. Professor Carter teaches nonfiction writing, rhetoric, and composition. His textbook, Writing as Reflective Action, co-authored with Sherrie Gradin, was published by Longman in 2001.

Michael Clark, PhD, JD, teaches technical and professional writing with additional specialization in Law and Literature, Literary Criticism, Literature and the First Amendment, and Legal Writing. During 1995-96, he taught at the University of Jordan in Amman, a period that included U.S. State Department-supported lectures in Syria and Egypt. Dr. Clark was a member of the White House staff during the Carter Administration and has taught at the University of Oregon, the University of Michigan, and Iowa State University. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from SUNY Binghamton as well as a JD from the University of Oregon School of Law. His most recent work focuses on First Amendment issues and the Internet.

W. Tracy Dillon, PhD, teaches technical and professional writing. He is Chair of the English Department at Portland State University, the Director of the Center for Excellence in Writing, and the current West Regional Vice President of the Association for Business Communication. His most recent projects include A Richer Harvest: The Literature of Work in the Pacific Northwest.

Carol Franks, Senior Instructor, teaches grammar and nonfiction writing. She trains technical writers on-site, writes and edits medical documents, writes specialized encyclopedia articles, edits software documents, and serves as a discourse consultant.

Andrew Giarelli is a core faculty member in the nonfiction track of the M.A. in Writing Program. His travel pieces, essays, and other articles have appeared in Far Eastern Economic Review, Newsday, High Country News, Newsday, Philadelphia magazine, Salt Lake City magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, and many other newspapers and magazines. He was the founding editor of Edging West, a western regional magazine, from 1995-1998, and a contributing editor for World Press Review and New Jersey Monthly. Dr. Giarelli has taught journalism and nonfiction writing at New York University, Utah State University, and as a Fulbright professor at the University of Malta. He has a B.A. in English from Yale University and a Ph.D. in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Assistant Professor Michael McGregor (M.F.A., Columbia University) teaches literary non-fiction writing, editing and journalism classes. The former editor-in-chief of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, he has published numerous essays, profiles and reviews in national magazines such as Poets & Writers, The Writer’s Chronicle and American Theatre, and in regional publications such as Oregon Humanities, The Oregon Historical Quarterly and The Seattle Weekly. A regular theater reviewer and featured arts writer for The Oregonian, he is a member of Portland’s annual theater awards committee. His story “Fireline” won the 2000 Daniel Curley Award for Best Short Fiction and a Literary Award Grant from the Illinois Arts Council. He is also the recipient of a 2001 Walden Fellowship. His current project is a biography of the minimalist poet Robert Lax.

A. B. Paulson, PhD, is coordinator of the creative writing strand of the M.A. in Writing. Paulson is author of Watchman Tell Us of the Night. His numerous short stories have appeared in journals and anthologies including The Georgia Review, The New England Review, Necessary Fictions, The Portland Review, The Ohio Review, Buffalo Spree, TriQuarterly, and Experimentelle Amerikanische Prosa. His short fiction, “The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality: A Diagnostic Test in Two Parts,” was recently published in the anthology, Extreme Fiction: Fabulists and Formalists. Professor Paulson teaches fiction writing and literature.

Shelley Reece, PhD, teaches nonfiction writing and British and American Literature. He helps manage Portland State University's Annual Poetry and Fiction Contest and serves on the Yamhill County Alliance for the Arts and PSU's Friends of English.

Primus St. John teaches Introduction to Literature, Fiction, Poetry, Contemporary Literature, African American Literature, African Fiction, Caribbean Literature, Chicano/Latino Literature, Adolescence in Fiction, and Multicultural Literature, and Sports Literature. His collections of poetry include Communion: Poems, 1976-1998, which won the Western States Book Award; Dreamer, which received the 1990 Hazel Hall Award for Poetry; Love is Not a Consolation: It is a Light; and Skins on the Earth. He is also the editor of the anthologies From Here We Speak and Zero Makes Me Hungry. His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies.

Dennis Stovall is the Coordinator of the Center's Publishing Program and Publisher of Ooligan Press. He has won numerous awards and recognition for book design, general contributions to the literary community, humanitarian contributions to that community, service to related organizations, and excellence in his writing. He has served on the boards of the Pacific NW Writers Association, the Oregon Writers Colony, Northwest Association of Book Publishers, and the Oregon Publishers Industry Alliance. He currently works with the Oregon Literary Coalition, the awards advisory committee for the Oregon Book Awards, and on the advisory committee of the Center for Excellence in Writing at Portland State University. He teaches a graduate seminar on the book publishing industry and is helping shape curriculum in publishing at Portland State with the Center's own university press.

Robin Cody is the author of Ricochet River, a novel set in a small Oregon logging town. His Voyage of a Summer Sun, a nonfiction book about canoeing the Columbia River, won the 1996 Oregon Book Award for literary nonfiction. He teaches seminars on writing in and about nature.

Charles Deemer has numerous journalism and script writing credits.  His published books include Christmas at the Juniper Tavern, Ten Sonnets, The Deadly Doowop, and Screenwright. He teaches screenwriting and advanced screenwriting.

Jack Hart, PhD, is a managing editor at The Oregonian, a nationally known newsroom consultant and writing coach, a widely published book and magazine writer, a university-level journalism instructor. In addition to serving on the CEW Advisory Board, he teaches magazine writing in the nonfiction writing program. He has been a faculty member at the University of Oregon; Oregon State University; California State University, Northridge; the University of Wisconsin Center System; Portland State University; and the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis and Clark College. His column on writing technique, “The Writer's Workshop,” appears regularly in Editor & Publisher magazine. He also participates in Oregon Live, an Internet site that shares news about the state.

Arlene Krasner has been a technical communicator for over 15 years. She is currently Director of Hardware Systems Development at Integrated Measurement Systems, Inc, where she leads hardware development, technical writing, mechanical engineering, and engineering services activities. She holds a Master's degree in Technical Writing from San Jose State University and has taught writing at the University of Nevada, Reno, as well as at Portland State. She is past President of the Willamette Valley Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication and a member of Portland State's Professional Writing Advisory Board. She teaches Writing Computer Documentation and Innovation in Technical Publications in addition to serving on the CEW Advisory Board.

Three of Le Guin's books have been finalists for the American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and among the many honors her writing has received are the National Book Award, five Hugo Awards, five Nebula Awards, the Kafka Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and the Harold D. Vursell Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She is perhaps best known for her Earthsea series and the novels The Left Hand of Darkness and The Lathe of Heaven. Changing Planes, a collection of short stories, won the 2002 PEN/Malamud for Short Stories. She teaches seminars on writing the first chapter of your novel, writing from the imagination, and writing in response to place.

Richard A. Leopold has over 20 years of experience in the field of information technology, including 10 years of managerial experience at companies like Kaiser Permanente, Wells Fargo Bank, and Ernst and Young. Currently he is National Director of Web Integration at Kaiser Permanente. When his schedule permits, he teaches Managing Web Communications in the technical writing program at Portland State in addition to volunteering his expertise as a member of the CEW Advisory Board.

Craig Lesley is the author of three novels, The Sky Fisherman, Winterkill, River Song, and numerous short stories. His work has received three Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Association Awards, The Western Writers of America Best Novel of the Year, and the Medicine Pipe Bearer's Award. The Sky Fisherman was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Bread Loaf Fellowship in the Novel, as well as two National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships to study Native American literature. Craig teaches advanced fiction writing as well as serving on the CEW Advisory Board.

Michael Lloyd has served as a staff photographer, an assistant picture editor for photo page editing and design, and director of photography at The Oregonian since 1974. Currently a staff photographer, he has achieved his most notable success in special project work. He was project photographer for The Oregonian's year-long investigation of drug abuse and its relationship to crime in Portland, which won the Sigma Delta Chi non-deadline reporting award in 1990. His work has received awards from the Society of Newspaper Design, the National Press Photographers Association, the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association and the Associated Press, among others. He has been nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize in photojournalism. In 1999, he received the Fred Stickel Award in photography for a portfolio of work from the previous year. He teaches desktop publishing and photography for writers.

Garret Romaine is Publications Manager at Pixelworks and past President of the Willamette Valley Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication. He received his MS in Geography from the University of Washington in 1983 specializing in resource management. He has written for organizations including the Washington Wilderness Coalition and the Washington Environmental Council, has served as editor for The North American Gold Mining Industry News, and has worked on staff at Willamette Week covering the environment. Currently, he regularly publishes features in the Society for Technical Communication's national and local newsletters. He is a contributing editor for Computer Bits magazine and writes a column entitled “Mining the Internet” for the national Gold Prospectors Association. He teaches Writing Computer Documentation and Publications Project Management at Portland State in addition to serving on the CEW Advisory Board.