KSI Staff

KAOHSIUNG SUMMER INSTITUTE FOR WRITING AND THE ARTS STAFF

Instructor:
Lisa Schumaier was born in the United States. She has taught creative writing, English literature, and literary criticism at multiple colleges and universities. She has also worked as a film festival producer, editor, and journalist for newspapers and national magazines. Ms. Schumaier received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana and holds a BA in English and Sociology from the University of Arizona. Publishing under a family name, she is the poet Dot Devota, and is the author of The Eternal Wall (Cannibal Books, 2011). Her poems appear in numerous literary journals and have been translated into Arabic. Awarded an Academy of American Poets Prize twice, she travels to give poetry readings both in the States and abroad.

Instructor:
Brandon Shimoda is a poet living and working in the United States. He was born in California, and has since lived in nine states and five countries. He is the author of three books of poetry—The Alps (2008), The Girl Without Arms (2011) and O Bon (2011)—and has published book reviews, poetry and short fiction in numerous magazines. He has received degrees from Sarah Lawrence College (where he focused on visual art and East Asian studies), and the University of Montana, where he also taught Creative Writing and English Composition, and was the assistant director of the Creative Writing program (2007-2008). He has also taught for the Missoula Art Museum, the Missoula Writing Collaborative and the University of Arizona Poetry Center. He has traveled widely, and has lived most recently in Washington and Maine, though currently lives in Arizona.

Instructor:
Molly McDonald is a poet and writer. She is on the English and Communications faculty of Washington County Community College, in Calais, Maine. As a full-time instructor, she teaches rhetoric, composition, literature, and creative writing courses. She has also taught at Husson University and the University of Montana. She received her MFA in poetry from the University of Montana in 2007, where she was awarded the Richard Hugo Memorial Scholarship. She earned her BA in English and Creative Writing from Oberlin College in 2002, where she was awarded the William Battrick Memorial Fellowship. She has also served on the editorial boards of CutBank Literary Magazine, Field: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, and Oberlin College Press. She lives in Eastport, Maine.

Instructor:
Zachary Schomburg is the author of Fjords, Volume 1 (Black Ocean 2012), Scary, No Scary (Black Ocean 2009), The Man Suit (Black Ocean 2007), and one forthcoming book, The Book of Joshua (McSweeney’s 2013). In 2009, he earned his Ph.D. in Creative Writing-Poetry at the University of Nebraska. He is the founder and co-editor of Octopus Magazine and Octopus Books, and co-curator of the Bad Blood Reading Series in Portland. His poetry, collaborations, and translations from the Russian have appeared in over 60 publications. He is currently faculty at the University of Nebraska MFA program, and also teaches poetry, film, and composition at Portland State University and Portland Community College.