The field of writing program administration has long been a space rich in metaphor. From platetwirling to fireextinguishing parents to dungeon masters and much more the work of a WPA extends to horizons unknown. Responding to the constraints of austerity Toward More Sustainable Metaphors of Writing Program Administration offers new lenses for established WPAs and provides aspiring and early career WPAs with a sense of the range of responsibilities and opportunities in their academic and professional spaces. ampnbsp This volume presents twelve chapters that reclaim and revise established metaphors offer new metaphors based on sustainable relational or emotional labor practices and phenomena and reveal the improvisational artisanal nature of WPA work. Chapters resonate across three sections. The first section focuses on organic relationships captured in phrases like putting out fires and seeing forests for the trees alongside unexpected comparisons to ground and light. The second describes institutional landscapes featuring generative juxtapositions such as the WPA as a labor activist or a mapper of emotional geography. And the third discusses performance crafts like improv comedy and artisanal making. ampnbsp Toward More Sustainable Metaphors of Writing Program Administration offers new and revised ways of thinking and acting for WPAs who are constantly negotiating the paradoxical demands of their work and continually striving to act ethically in conflicted and even fraught situations. It will inspire practicing aspiring and former WPAs working in a time of transformation by highlighting more sustainable ways of enacting WPA identity. ampnbsp ampnbsp Contributors Jacob Babb John Belk Katherine Daily OMeara Ryan J. Dippre Douglas Hesse Andrew Hollinger Rona Kaufman Cynthia D. Mwenja Manny Pia Scott Rogers Robyn Tasaka Alexis Teagarden Christy I. Wenger Lydia Wilkes