University of Puget Sound Welcomes New Arches Editor
Logger alumna Lisa Kozleski ’94 will take over as editor of Puget Sound's award-winning alumni magazine.
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 Dougharty ’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.
For the first time in its 50-year history, an alum will serve as the editor of Arches.
In 2003, Kozleski’s husband, fellow Logger John Harding ’94, was hired to teach Buddhism and East Asian religions at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada for what they thought would be two years. Twenty-one years later, they have made a great home for their family in their southern Alberta city. 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. In 2024, Wider Horizons won a Gold Award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and was a finalist for CASE's prestigious Robert Sibley Magazine of the Year Award.
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 alumni about the stories you hope to read in the issues to come. Kozleski will take over from retiring Arches Editor Tina Hay this fall.
Lisa Kozleski (second from left) at her graduation from Puget Sound in 1994.
About Arches
Arches is the alumni magazine of Puget Sound, serving more than 40,000 Loggers worldwide. Guided by the intellectually curious and humanist values of the liberal arts, Arches strives to capture and convey the ethos of the college through stories that are relevant to the times we live in, amplify the voices and experiences of Loggers, foster understanding, and fuel connection within our community and beyond.
