Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi is the author of THE BOOK OF KANE AND MARGARET (FC2 / UAP) and DISINTEGRATION MADE PLAIN AND EASY (Piżama). He was a community college student, a transfer student, attended two graduate programs in writing, was a writing tutor, was an adjunct instructor, and worked as college staff before joining Western Washington University as a faculty member (i.e., went to college and never left). He is excited to work with writers on a number of topics, including creative writing practice, poetry, fiction, speculative fiction, humor writing, submitting work for publication, graduate school preparation, and graduate school survival. He holds degrees from UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC San Diego and Santa Clara University, and he is an alum of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop.