Bruce Beasley (1992), MFA, Columbia University; Ph.D., University of Virginia, Professor.  He is a poetry advisor for the Bellingham Review, which is located in the English Department.  A National Endowment for the Arts Writing Fellow, he is the author of five collections of poems: Spirituals (Wesleyan University Press); The Creation (winner of Ohio State University Press Award); Summer Mystagogia, winner of the Colorado Prize (selected by Charles Wright), from University Press of Colorado; Signs and Abominations (Wesleyan University Press), and The Corpse Flower: New & Selected Poems (University of Washington Press).  His poems have also appeared in such journals as Paris Review, Poetry, Yale Review, and in The Pushcart Prizes: Best of the Small Presses.  He teaches courses in creative writing and American literature at Western Washington University.