The WSU Honors College

Annie Lampman teaches honors creative writing courses in fiction and creative nonfiction, as well as the honors thesis seminar.

Prior to joining the Honors College, Annie was a faculty member in the WSU Department of English and the University of Idaho Department of English. An Idaho native, Annie received her M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Idaho and lives in Moscow, Idaho where she enjoys getting out in nature as much as possible, including in her pollinator garden full of native flowers, herbs, berries, honeybees, bumblebees, solitary bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and song birds. Annie is author of the American Fiction Award-winning novel SINS OF THE BEES (Pegasus/Simon & Schuster) and the letterpress-printed poetry chapbook BURNING TIME (Limberlost Press). Her short stories, poetry, and narrative essays have been published in seventy-some literary journals and anthologies such as The Normal School, Orion Magazine, The Massachusetts Review, and Women Writing the West. She has been awarded the Dogwood Literary Award in Fiction, the Everybody Writes Award in Poetry, a Best American Essays “Notable,” a Pushcart Prize special mention, a Literature Fellowship by the Idaho Commission on the Arts, and a national wilderness artist’s residency in the Owyhee Canyonlands Wilderness through the Bureau of Land Management.