Stephen Howie has 30 years of experience as a prize-winning reporter, editor, nonfiction writer, college professor and videographer. He was the first MFA student in the Creative Nonfiction writing program at the University of Pittsburgh to have his manuscript accepted for publication prior to graduation. He has worked as a staff reporter and correspondent for newspapers across the country including The Boston Globe, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Capital Times (Madison, WI), and more recently as an education reporter, features editor and assistant city editor at the Skagit Valley Herald (Mount Vernon, WA).
He has published essays in prominent literary journals, in addition to magazine pieces on everything from the legacy of Robert Frost to rural farmers in Chiapas learning to defend their communities from abuse and harassment.
In addition to his writing, Howie has shot, edited and produced a number of videos focused on social justice. He taught digital storytelling, news writing, editing, page design, feature writing and reporting for 16 years as a senior instructor in the Department of Journalism at Western Washington University.
In the past three years, Howie expanded his audio expertise by taking radio- and podcast-focused courses from the Columbia Journalism School. He has produced audio features and news for KMRE, an independent community radio station in Bellingham, Washington, and currently works full time as a web producer/editor at KUOW, Seattle’s NPR news station. At KUOW, Howie works with reporters on web build-outs of their radio stories, creates original Instagram posts, and leads the station’s social media team.
