Jared Leising

Monday, 13 June 2016

Sign-up at 7:00, show starts at 8:00, Jared will be featured around 8:40

leising.mugshotJARED LEISING is the author of a chapbook—The Widows and Orphans of Winesburg, Ohio—and a long-time volunteer for B.F.I. Seattle, a youth writing center in Greenwood. Before moving to the Northwest, he received his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Houston, and in 2010, Jared curated the Jack Straw Writers Program. Currently, he’s teaching English at Cascadia College where he recently coordinated and co-taught the college’s first MOOC—a massive open online course exploring the innovative poetics of the Cascadia bioregion.