Bio

Anne Beaufort, Ph.D., is on the faculty of University of Washington Tacoma, where she teaches writing and supports other faculty and students in creating meaningful writing practices. She has studied and written on matters of writer’s block, creativity, and therapeutic and spiritually-based ways of using writing. She also explores the interconnections of visual and verbal means of self-expression as tools for probing our inner lives.

Following ten years working in corporate communications, Anne explored issues of writing in the “real world” and transitions from school to workplace writing in her Ph.D. program at Stanford University, in the Language, Literacy and Culture program. This led to the publication of Writing in the Real World by Teachers College Press.

Her research into issues writers face has drawn on cognitive psychology, linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, and genre theory and has resulted in journal articles published in Research in Teaching of English and Written Communication as well as the recent publication of College Writing and Beyond: A New Framework for University Writing Instruction by Utah State University Press.

In addition, Anne has been a long-time journal keeper and spiritual seeker, beginning with the stories she wrote on her father’s lap during very long church services. She has taught workshops at Seekers Church in Washington, D.C. and the Washington Cathedral, at Mt. Sinai Priory (Long Island) and Pendle Hill Quaker Center for Study and Contemplation.