Course Listing - by Instructor
| Name | Biography |
|---|---|
| Matthew Boudousquie | |
| Jennifer Bryan-Goforth | Jennifer Bryan-Goforth bio |
| Chris Byrd | |
| Nancy Lou Canyon | Nancy Canyon loves to encourage people to begin a personal creative adventure. She has been teaching writing practice since 1998, and has been teaching art since the 90's, when she worked as an illustration instructor at NW College of Art. She is an idea person and loves to inspire her students to try new things. She has been teaching at Whatcom Community College, Community & Continuing Education, since 2008. She works as a writing coach for The Narrative Project. Nancy Canyon holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific Lutheran University. She also earned a fiction certificate from University of Washington in 1999. She keeps an art/writing studio in Historic Fairhaven where she works and holds classes. Her novel, Celia's Heaven, is currently launching at Village Books. She also has a book of poetry, Saltwater, and an eBook of fiction short-shorts. She is working on a memoir: Struck Nancy loves to garden and together with her husband they raise tomatoes, potatoes, kale, lettuce, peas, beets, and onions. They also love to hike and paddleboard when the weather is good. They have three children and two grandsons. They also have two pets: a dog Olive and a cat Sid. Both are nearing their 14th birthdays. |
| Annalee Dunn | Annalee Dunn bio |
| Jessica Gigot | |
| Melissa Johnson | Melissa has been successfully teaching all across the humanities and social sciences since 2007. She finds tremendous joy and fulfillment working with students, exposing them to ideas and topics for the first time or helping them become experts in their field. Her enthusiasm and knowledge are contagious and inspiring. She approaches every classroom, course, and student with openness and a keen interest in meeting people where they are, building community, and working together to engage the whole person in the process of learning and applying skills. She is most at home when teaching. Melissa began her journey into higher ed as a student at Central Washington University, where she earned both a B.A. History and an M.A. English Literature. Her time at CWU opened the door to teaching and sparked a lifelong passion for education. While working at CWU, Melissa was able to make connections with English, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, a Great Books program, Communications, Film, Continuing Education, the Center for Student Empowerment, and more. Her work with these departments/programs and professional organizations like The Society for Cinema Studies and The National Women’s Studies Association in part led to further graduate work at Southern Connecticut State University where she earned an M.A. Women’s and Gender Studies and University of Southampton where she is a doctoral candidate in Film. She is an accomplished, creative, and successful educator, academic, filmmaker, and writer. But mostly, she is passionate about teaching and learning. Melissa lives in Bellingham where she loves the rain, the trees, and the easy access to water and mountains. She likes to be in nature, amongst the trees, whenever possible and does her best to eat, breath, and sleep movies. When not watching movies she enjoys experimenting with mixology and baking, reading interesting books of all sorts, engaging with weird history, playing board games, revisiting Conan clips, and spending as much time as possible with her delightful offspring. |
| Shoshana Kerewsky | Shoshana has led writing workshops and related groups and classes for elementary schoolers to post-doctoral graduate students and professionals, as well as community members. She is a retired psychotherapist, community college instructor, and faculty emerita. In addition to her social sciences and psychology teaching and presenting, she has taught a range of classes related to academic, professional, and creative writing in multiple genres. She has presented, led workshops, and read her work nationally and internationally. Her writing has appeared in numerous creative writing publications, newspapers, professional journals, professional handbooks, and even a guidebook to ethical travel. Her first memoir received a Firebird Book Award. Locally, she is a Sue C. Boynton Merit Award Winner whose poem currently appears on bus placards. Shoshana enjoys helping writers to learn and then break writing "rules." Students describe the feedback she provides as warm, helpful, centered on the writer's intentions, and sensitive to culture and diversity. She loves to be part of new and experienced writers' joyful exploration and self-expression. Shoshana was a licensed psychotherapist and certificant in human services. She holds degrees in linguistics, writing, counseling, and professional psychology. She was nationally recognized as an educator in her specialty area. She was a board president of the Oregon Psychological Association and Friendship with Cambodia, as well as holding other board roles in those organizations and the National Organization for Human Services. Shoshana loves to read and write. Her creative and professional writing has been published since she was in high school. She has walked the Camino de Santiago 4 times and recently volunteered in a pilgrim welcome center in Spain. Shoshana loves to attend talks and readings, walk, cook, garden, and travel. She recently visited Japan and is working on her own haibun about that experience. She has seen seven of the world's penguin species in their own ecosystems, and hopes to see an 8th soon. |
| Charles Lindsey | Lin's career has spanned more than 40 years as both an atmospheric scientist and product management consultant and mentor. He's been consistently praised for the passion and knowledge he is able to share with colleagues and students. He's an active sailor and serves as the weather advisor for a local charter sail and power boating company. Lin received his B.A in Political Economy from The Colorado College, his M.S, in Environmental Sciences from the University of Virginia, and his MBA from the University of Washington Foster School of Business. He has been an invited speaker for professional organizations and has published a number of papers and reports throughout his career. He has served as a judge for UW business school competitions and is an invited speaker and mentor on careers in product management for upcoming business school graduates. Lin and his wife Susan moved to Bellingham in 2020 following long careers in the Seattle area, northern California and southeastern Washington. They have three adult children and greatly enjoy spending time together as a family. In 2023 they spent 10 days sailing in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) and the kids are hounding them to take them back again! |
| Scott Opsahl | |
| Katelyn Schneider | |
| Lisa Spicer | |
| Gavin Stewart | |
| Michele Sweeney | |
| Magdalena Theisen | |
| Jennifer Wilhoit |