Creative Writing: Full-Time Faculty

Recent Faculty News

Prof. Justin Hocking’s book A Field Guide to the Subterranean: A Memoir is coming out with nationally recognized Counterpoint Press in June 2025. In 2025, Two Plum press will also publish Prof. Hocking’s novelette The Curse Tablets.

Prof. Gabriel Urza’s novel The Silver State will be published in July 2025 by Algonquin Press/Little Brown. His collection of short stories, An Incomplete History of the American West, will be published by the University of Nevada Press in 2026.

Prof. Leni Zumas’s novel Wolf Bells will be published in 2025 by Algonquin Press/Little Brown.

John Beer*

Associate Professor
Poetry
jbeer@pdx.edu | FMH M314

*On sabbatical until Fall 2025


Paul Collins

Professor
Nonfiction
pcollins@pdx.edu | FMH M408


Justin Hocking

Teaching Assistant Professor
Nonfiction
jhocking@pdx.edu | FMH M305

Janice Lee

Associate Professor
Fiction
janice7@pdx.edu | FMH 310L


Gabriel Urza

Director of Creative Writing | Associate Professor
Fiction
gurza@pdx.edu | FMH M407

Consuelo Wise

Visiting Scholar
Poetry
cwise@pdx.edu | FMH M415


Leni Zumas*

Professor
Fiction
zumas@pdx.edu | FMH M311

*On sabbatical until Fall 2025