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Writing Mentors

Mark S. Burrows, M.Div., Ph.D.

Spiritual Writing: Open Genre

Mark S. Burrows has recently published a new translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus (Paraclete Press, 2024) and co-authored You Are the Future: Living the Questions with Rilke (Orbis Books, 2023) with Stephanie Dowrick.

David McGlynn, MFA, Ph.D.

Fiction, Creative Nonfiction

David McGlynn's two most recent books are One Day You'll Thank Me (Counterpoint, 2018) and Everything We Could Do (Counterpoint, 2025).

Jen Pollock Michel, MFA

Spiritual Writing: Open Genre

Jen Pollock Michel's recent books are Surprised by Paradox: The Promise of "And" in an Either-Or World (InterVarsity Press, 2019), which received Christianity Today's 2020 Book of the Year Award of Merit; Beautiful Orthodoxy, and In Good Time: 8 Habits for Reimagining Productivity, Resisting Hurry, and Practicing Peace (NavPress, 2022), which received the Word Guild's 2023 Book of the Year Award – Nonfiction.

Laura Reece Hogan, M.A., J.D.

Poetry

Laura Reece Hogan's two most recent poetry collections are Butterfly Nebula (Backwaters, University of Nebraska Press, 2023), which won the Backwaters Prize in poetry, and Litany of Flights (Paraclete Press, 2020), which won the Paraclete Poetry Prize. Both works received the Illumination Gold Medal for poetry in 2024 and 2022, respectively.

Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, M.A., M.Ed.

Fiction

Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum's recent works include the novel Elita (TriQuarterly Press/Northwestern University Press, 2025) and the short story collection Outer Stars (UNT Press, 2025), winner of the 2025 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction.

Alissa Wilkinson, MFA

Creative Nonfiction

Alissa Wilkinson's recent works include We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine (Liveright, 2025) and Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women (Broadleaf, 2022).

Mischa Willett, MFA, Ph.D.

Director, Poetry

Mischa Willett's most recent books include The Elegy Beta (Mockingbird, 2020) and an edition of Philip James Bailey's Festus: an Apocalypse (Edinburgh University Press, 2022).