Karen Rosenberg, PhD
Director
"I am passionate about writing, writing pedagogy, and capable and
creative program administration. As the Director of the Writing Center I have the great privilege of supporting students and faculty in creating productive spaces to explore, revise, and re-imagine their writing...."
Kim Sharp, MFA
Assistant Director
"The rambling process that brought me to the position of Writing
Center Manager is similar to my writing process. I started out as a
UW Bothell (IAS) student and eventually started working as a
consultant in the Writing Center; I left to pursue my MFA...."
Lead Peer Consultants
Erik Echols
BA Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences: Society, Ethics and Human Behavior, UW Bothell
"My strengths as a consultant include thesis focus, writing structure, close reading and literature reviews. I offer my patience, and organizational skills, as well as years of experience .."
Gwyn Boyer
Major: School Psychology Educational Specialist
BA in Community Psychology, UW Bothell
"I feel that the writing process can be similar to how I learned cursive writing."
Peer Consultants
Chelsea Carter
Major: MFA Creative Writing and Poetics
BA: IAS, Media and Communications Studies
"My multiplicities of interests academically and professionally have never connected, and they span widely across unrelated fields..."
Cora Thomas
Major: Master of Arts in Cultural Studies
"My pen is my paintbrush..."
BA: Creative Writing
"I offer students guidance in understanding the basics of their assignment, help craft theses, as well as work on structure and
grammar..."
Elizabeth Babadzhanova
Major: Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences: Media and Communications
"Remember in Disney’s The Jungle Book when Kaa (the snake) tried to hypnotize Mowgli with its eyes? I remember going through a similar feeling..."
Erin Sanchez
Major: Master of Arts in Cultural Studies
BA: Communication and Art History
"Sitting on the floor in front of my mother’s bookshelves, I poured over the pages..."
Heather Miles
Major: Community Psychology
"I always have something to say..."
Jasleena Grewal
Major: Environmental Studies
"I never judge a book by its cover. Instead, I take the sniffing route..."
Jay Loomis
Major: M.F.A. in Creative Writing and Poetics
B.A. IAS: Culture, Literature, and the Arts
"I love language. I love the way words sound when skillfully combined..."
Jeff Thompson
Major: Computer Science and Software Engineering
"Contrary to popular belief, you don’t need to be an avid reader to be a good writer; you just have to have something to say..."
Major: M.F.A. in Creative Writing and Poetics
B.A. in Film Theory and Production and English
"It is enchanting, this ability we have to compose our thoughts, to move them from dream to page for others to read and digest..."
Katie Knutson
Major: Business Administration
"I didn’t come into college thinking that I was a fabulous writer..."
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Linda Dodge
BA in Psychology, UW Seattle
My favorite type of writing is personal experience/short article/personal essay.
"My passion is writing something that reaches out and connects with others, even those you may not know, and touches or moves them in some way."
BA: American Studies
"My four year old daughter, Hadassah, recently asked me why pair and pear are the same word, but she is not allowed to
eat her pants..."
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Margaret Chiavetta
Major: MFA Creative Writing and Poetics
B.A. Anthropology
"My creative writing sprouted from my first experience doing field work in anthropology..."
Olga Hlavaty-LaPosa
Major: Community Psychology
"For me, writing is quite similar to learning a second language. Both require tremendous effort and patience..."
Will Jonsson
Major: BS in Environmental Science – Earth System Science
"I’d discovered that the fundamentals of nearly any path I finally pursued would be built upon my ability to communicate my thoughts effectively..."