Joanne B. Mulcahy

Joanne B. Mulcahy spent 30 years teaching creative nonfiction at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, where she also created and directed the Writing Culture Summer Institute. She has taught in Alaskan and Oregonian prisons and in libraries and other community settings. Mulcahy’s cross-cultural experience includes work with women’s groups in Northern Ireland and teaching at the Universidad Latina de América in Morelia, Mexico. Her essays and interviews appear in Creative Nonfiction, Hyperallergic, Nexos, The Pennsylvania Gazette, The Women’s Review of Books, and The Writer’s Chronicle. Anthologies featuring her work include The Stories that Shape Us: Contemporary Women Write About the West and These United States. 

She has received nine artists residencies, the New Letters essay prize, and grants from the British Council, the Barbara Deming Fund for Women, Fulbright-García Robles, Oregon’s Literary Arts, and the Oregon and Alaska Humanities councils. Her books include Birth and Rebirth on an Alaskan Island, Remedios: The Healing Life of Eva Castellanoz, and Writing Abroad: A Guide for Travelers (with Peter Chilson), which won the Peace Corps Worldwide 2017 Best Travel Book Award. Marion Greenwood: Portrait and Self-Portrait—A Biography is forthcoming in 2025.