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Spotlight on Arts & Ministry
It is our privilege and pleasure to make note of other ministries, publications, and varied outreach that I [we] have learned about (and usually learned from). One such is the beautiful arts journal Rock & Sling. Here, for your own edification and pleasure, is the information from their web site, slightly condensed.
 Susan Cowger graduated with a BA in fine arts in 1977 and received her MFA in creative writing with a secondary emphasis in art in 1997. Her award-winning sculpture, paintings, etchings, and mixed media art have been commissioned into many personal and corporate collections nationwide, including St. Peter's Hospital, Inc. Susan's art has also been featured in numerous public and private gallery showings. She has worked as an artist-in-residence in public schools and has taught at the Spokane Art School and in the Spokane Public School system. A former associate editor at Eastern Washington University Press, Susan writes prose and poetry. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Calyx, Thema, Healing Muse, Mars Hill Review, and Pontoon: An Anthology of Washington State Poets, as well as the anthology Milk Fever which also featured her artwork on the cover. "Scarab Hiding," a chapbook by Susan, is due out in December (Finishing Line Press).
 Laurie Klein earned a BA in Art with secondary studies in literature-in-translation from St. Olaf College. Her award-winning artwork, collage, and calligraphy have been exhibited in the Midwest and Pacific Northwest and have been published in magazines such as Gallery and Somerset Studio. A past recipient of the Headphones award (the audio book Emmy equivalent), her spoken word selections can be heard on radio, CDs, and videos. Laurie's songs, which include the now-standard chorus "I Love You, Lord," appear internationally in hundreds of recordings, songbooks, and hymnals, and she was presented with a RIAA Certified Platinum Sales award for work on Wow Worship Blue. In 2003 she was a Ploughshares Emerging Writers nominee. Laurie won the 2004 Predator Press prize for the chapbook Bodies of Water, Bodies of Flesh. That same year she was also the recipient of a San Juan Writer's Fellowship and co-founded Rock & Sling: A Journal of Literature, Art and Faith, where she sponsors the Virginia Brendemuehl poetry prize. Other poems have appeared in The Southern Review, New Letters, Potomac Review, Mid-American Review, and Commonweal, as well as numerous other journals, Christian magazines and several anthologies. Most recently, Laurie won the Dorothy Churchill Cappon Essay Prize sponsored by New Letters.
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