Tomás Guillén graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in journalism and worked at the Tucson Citizen as a reporter. Several years later, he joined the Omaha World-Herald. In 1980, he moved to Seattle to work for The Seattle Times and for 15 years, he wrote general assignment and investigative stories. Toward the end of his tenure at the Times, Guillén and a colleague wrote the New York Times best-selling book, “The Search for the Green River Killer.” Guillén was a 1988 Pulitzer Prize finalist for his investigative reporting on the Green River murder investigation. He followed up with the nonfiction medical mystery novel, “Toxic Love.” In 1994, after earning his M.A. from the UW Department of Communication, he became a tenured professor for the Seattle University Department of Communication. He became co-director for Seattle University’s Urban Newspaper Workshop in 1997, helping run the two-week writing program for ethnic high school students interested in journalism and teaching several of the classes. He served as Acting Chair for the department from 2006 to 2007 and was also the Director of the Journalism Summer Workshop from 2000 to 2009. Guillén has earned numerous awards recognizing his investigative reporting. He was a Fulbright Senior Specialist Scholar at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, in Cali, Colombia in 2008 and at Staffordshire University in the United Kingdom in 2011. In addition to his academic and professional life, Guillén volunteers as an interpreter for medical and dental mission trips to Nicaragua.