Visiting Writers
The English Department hosts a distinguished visiting writer each year
Meet Our Current Visiting Writer
Ramón Isao, 2023-24
Ramón Isao is a recipient of the Tim McGinnis Award for Fiction, as well as fellowships from Artist Trust and Jack Straw Cultural Center. His stories appear in such journals as AGNI, The Iowa Review, Epiphany, Ninth Letter, and Moss, and his screenplay credits include ZMD, Junk, and Dead Body. He has an MFA from Columbia University, and serves as Fiction Editor at the New Orleans Review.
A journalist, essayist, and novelist, Kristen is the Winner of Nautilus and IPPY awards; and her novel Subduction was a finalist for two International Latino Book Awards and Foreword Indies Book of the Year.
A former Hugo House Prose Writer-in-Residence, she is a Washington State Book Award Finalist, the editor of Seismic, and reviews books for the Washington Post. Kristen was also the researcher for the New York Times team behind “Snow Fall,” which won a Pulitzer Prize.
Daemond Arrindell is a poet, performer, and teaching artist. Writer-In-Residence through Seattle Arts & Lectures' Writers in the Schools Program; and in 2012, he taught Seattle University’s first course in Slam Poetry.
Anastacia-Renee is a writer, educator, interdisciplinary artist, TEDx Speaker and podcaster. She is a 2020 Arc Fellow (4Culture) and Jack Straw Curator. Renee is the recipient of the James W. Ray Distinguished Artist Award for Washington Artist (2018), Seattle Civic Poet (2017-2019), and Poet-in-Residence at Hugo House (2015-2017).
Theo Pauline Nestor is the author of Writing Is My Drink: A Writer's Story of Finding her own Voice (And a Guide to how you can too) (Simon & Schuster 2013) and How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed: A Memoir of Starting Over (Crown, 2008).