Writing Fellows

Brett Campbell is a first year graduate student in the Master of Divinity program.  He attained an undergraduate degree from Iowa State University, where he studied Philosophy and English.  Brett has spent the past few years working as a substitute teacher, coach, Peace Corps Volunteer, and most recently a student recruiter for a small community college.  His ultimate goal in life is to defeat the Dos Equis guy for the title of Most Interesting Man in the World.  He currently holds the title of Homecoming Candidate 2001.  He has a long way to go.

Heather Goodrich
BA, Colorado State University, English
BA, Colorado State University, Journalism & Technical Communication
MFA Candidate, Naropa University

Heather is from Loveland, Colorado, and is a second-year graduate student. She is writing her first novel, Gristle, and creating a new feminist theory called hysteria. She writes prose, closet dramas, technical documents, advertisements, and nonfiction articles. While working as a journalist and an editor, she won several Society of Professional Journalists awards for investigative reports on environmental protection practices and an examination of porphyria through the lens of Lacanian theory. She is the director of Gesture and an associate editor for Bombay Gin.

Largely raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Jenna Kotch was exposed to an extensive amount of travelling, cultural diversity, and multi-cultural values. As a result of her formative years, she has taken great pleasure in translating these values into her personal educational pursuits. For three years, she worked in the Arctic in a small Inuit community, in capacity of Teaching Assistant. In addition, she spent a year as a Visiting Research Assistant at the Institute for Arctic Studies at Dartmouth College. Jenna continues to remain passionate about learning, living among other cultures, and embracing multiformity in knowledge.

Kristen Park, a graduate student in the Writing and Poetics Program, packed her pen, yoga mat, and tango shoes, leaving behind her surfboard and the salty coast of NJ for an artistic adventure in Naropaland, Boulder.  As a Writing Fellow, Kristen draws from her teaching background—ballroom instructor, yoga practitioner, Rutgers University tutor, and wellness educator—in order to facilitate student-centered writing practices.  She will not require performance of asanas or cha-chas to get to the root of writing (unless requested); however, she can provide writing exercises for kinesthetic, visual, and auditory learners.  If seeking a somatic writing experience, join her at the NWC.

Kirstin Wagner is from Chicago, Illinois. She earned her bachelor's degree in English, History, and Politics from Cornell College in Iowa. She wrote her undergraduate thesis on the ideological evolution of Malcolm X and spent several months interning with the Cedar Valley Historical Society, for whom she conducted and transcribed interviews and compiled documentaries about World War II veterans in the Cedar Valley area. She is currently enrolled in the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, pursuing an MFA degree in the Writing and Poetics program. She has been tutoring her peers and siblings for over ten years and is excited about working with writers in the Naropa community.