Cookbook Authors

Dr. Ben Gunsberg is an Associate Professor of English at Utah State University, where he teaches courses in creative writing and English education. He is the author of the poetry collection Welcome, Dangerous Life (Turning Point, 2018) and the chapbook Rhapsodies with Portraits (Finishing Line, 2015).  His poems appear in literary magazines such as Poetry Daily, DIAGRAM, and Mid-American Review. Gunsberg’s peer-reviewed articles appear in The Journal of Creative Writing Studies and Computers and Composition, among others. He lives in Logan, Utah, and moonlights as the Multi-Medium Editor for Sugar House Review.

Matthew Hitchman is an Acting Assistant Professor at the University of Washington Seattle where he is the faculty mentor for the community-engage composition course. He also works as an part time instructor at South Seattle College.

Dr. Kelly L. Wheeler is an Assistant Professor of Writing at Curry College in Milton, MA. Her scholarly presentations have included digital access and disability as well as identity politics in online propaganda. Her current scholarship focuses on mapping the rhetorical function of swastikas within communities.

Lauren Ray is the Open Education Librarian at the UW Libraries, where they support faculty in creating and using Open Educational Resources, or OER, which help save students money and provide faculty with additional ways to tailor course materials to their needs.

Elliott Stevens is the English Studies & Research Commons Librarian at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Sarah is currently a pre-doctorate instructor at the University of Washington, where she studies late medieval European romance and early modern drama. Her work focuses on the intersection between material text and the written bodies of women, animals, and ecologies. As a part of her interest in textual materiality and digital humanities, she is co-developer for the Ricard Coer de Lyon Multitext project and the upcoming Marlowe in Sheets. As an instructor, Sarah seeks to implement an antiracist pedagogy that enables her students to uncover their critical voices.