PLU Rainier Writing Workshop Fellow
Literature – Poetry
Oakland, CA
October 2025, two weeks
Susan G. Duncan is pursuing an MFA in creative writing at Rainier Writing Workshop, Pacific Lutheran University. She is retired from a consulting practice with a performing and visual arts clientele, capping a career in arts administration. She served as executive director for San Francisco’s long-running musical comedy phenomenon Beach Blanket Babylon, the al fresco California Shakespeare Theater, and the Grammy-winning, all-male vocal ensemble Chanticleer. Her poetry has appeared in Glassworks, The MacGuffin, Orange Blossom Review, Soundings East, THINK, 3Elements Literary Review, and Yalobusha Review among others, as well as in anthologies by Sixteen Rivers Press and Red Claw Press.