Cheryl Grey Bostrom (’80 MA English) independently published her best-selling award-winner Sugar Birds in 2021. Tyndale House re-released it in 2023 and has now published Leaning on Air, a standalone sequel set on the Palouse.
Here, Washington State Magazine catches up with Bostrom about prairie restoration, her writing process, and more.
Talk about seeing the Palouse for the first time.
A Port Angeles girl, I rarely ventured farther than the Olympic Peninsula before college. But in September 1975 I set off cross-state in my 1966 Impala to visit my boyfriend, newly enrolled in WSU’s Veterinary College. Two things happened that … » More …
Baseball lends itself as metaphor like no other sport. Boxing might come close, but its inherent brutality and changing cultural tastes have removed it from the public’s awareness.
But baseball endures and permeates our culture, and even a non-fan can appreciate the sport’s dramatic interplay of quietude and adrenaline. In Love Reports to Spring Training, Linda Kittell exploits this richness through a deeply satisfying … » More …
Maxime Guinel wanted to do something different. So he left his home in Brittany, went to college in Manchester, England, then came to Washington State University in 2002 to pursue his doctorate. A week after he arrived in Pullman, he met Sophia Sushailo from Ivano-Frankivsk, in western Ukraine. They fell in love.
Maxime is a doctoral candidate in materials science and is a member of Grant Norton’s materials science research group. Sophia has just finished her bachelor’s degree in biotechnology. She plans to work for a year while Maxime finishes his degree. She has already been accepted into two graduate programs in pharmacology.
