New Arches editor Lisa Kozleski ’94 started getting paid to write when she was 16, writing for her hometown paper in Woodland Park, Colo. Thanks to a well-timed conversation with admissions counselor W. Houston Dougherty ’83, she chose to study at Puget Sound where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in English with honors. Kozleski went on to work at newspapers of all sizes, including the South Pierce County Dispatch and the Philadelphia Inquirer.
In 2003, Kozleski’s husband, John Harding ’94, was hired to teach Buddhism and East Asian religions at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. For the past 13 years, Kozleski has worked across town as a writer and editor for Lethbridge College’s award-winning alumni magazine, Wider Horizons. In 2020, she was named editor of the year by the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association, and in 2024, she received an excellence award for leadership and community building.
She has often said the only job she could imagine loving more than editing Wider Horizons is getting to edit her own alumni magazine, Arches. She can’t wait to get started doing just that—and would love to hear from you about the stories you hope to read in the issues to come. Kozleski will take over from retiring Arches Editor Tina Hay this fall.
