Rena Priest

04.21-Present. Washington State Poet Laureate | Community workshops and talks

04.22. Instructor | Black Dog Arts Center | Hike and Write

06.21. Instructor | Hugo House | Quarantine Write-in with Rena Priest

04.21. Instructor | Hugo House | Find Your Feet: the metrical foot in poetry

08.19. Panelist | Hedgebrook & Young Women Empowered (Y-WE)

07.18. Facilitator | Poets in the Park, Redmond, WA        

03.18. Facilitator | Mount Holyoke College Puget Sound Writers

02.18. Guest Presenter | University of Washington, Tacoma                

11.17. Facilitator/Panelist | People vs. Oil and Gas Summit      

• Indigenous Sovereignty & Fossil Fuel Fights

• Regional Case Studies: PNW/Lummi & Gulf Coast

06.17. Faculty | Chuckanut Writer’s Conference

• Writing Off-topic: The fine art of beating around the bush 

• When Our Work Meets Our Politics: A conversation...

2012-2015 | Adjunct Faculty | Western Washington University

• Fairhaven 368: Special Topics in the Humanities

• American Cultural Studies 301: Comparative Cultural Studies

• American Cultural Studies 315: Contemporary American Indian Issues

2010-2011 | Faculty | Northwest Indian College                      

• English 148: Introduction to Indian Legends

• English 155: Introduction to Creative Writing 

• Humanities 201: Oral Interpretation of Literature 

• Native American Studies 208: Writing Family History

• English 236: Survey of Native American Literature 

• Native American Studies 240: Native Women’s Studies