Writer and educator Judith Kitchen (1941–2014) was the cofounder of the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. Dinah Lenney teaches writing in the Bennington Writing Seminars, the Rainier Writing Workshop, and at the University of Southern California.

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