MFA- Rainier Writers Workshop, nominated for Pushcart Prizes and Best of the Net Awards. Her creative nonfiction won an award from Lunchticket. Co-founder of reading series, Flash Fiction Forum. Her novel, The Rosa Luxemburg Socialist Strip Club, was a semi finalist for the Faulkner-Wisdom contest https://litakurth.weebly.com/ She’s teaching a novel class in June www.CreatorSchoolCA.com called The Messy Middle.