Glenna Luschei Ph.D. (’99): Glenna Luschei has published Solo Press books and poetry magazines for fifty years. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a D.H Lawrence Fellowship in New Mexico, an Honorary Doctorate of Literature from St. Andrew’s Presbyterian College in Laurinburg, North Carolina and a Master of Life Award from her alma mater, The University of Nebraska. She was named Poet Laureate of San Luis Obispo City and County for the year 2000. She served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts. Luschei is the author of many chapbooks, special editions and trade books. Her latest books are Zen Duende: Collaborative Poems (Presa Press 2016) and The Sky is Shooting Blue Arrows (University of New Mexico Press, 2014). Three of her artist books have received prizes from the Rounce & Coffin Best Western books from Occidental College. She has taught many years for UCLA Arts Reach, for Chaplin College at the California Men’s Colony, for Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and at Atascadero State Hospital. She is featured in the movie “Between Two Rivers.”