Rana Tahir is an Administrative Assistant in the Master of Fine Arts in Writing program. Her duties are to handle all administrative tasks for the program including processing billing and registration of students, faculty pay, and other organizational tasks. As a graduate of the program (class of 2015), and with experience teaching K-12 and undergraduate students and briefly in publishing, she was excited to return to Pacific in this role to help guide students through their MFA journey in a program that means so much to her personally and professionally.

Author Bio:

Rana Tahir is a poet, writer, and educator based in Portland, OR. In addition to her three books and a Tarot guidebook, her work can be found in various magazines. Born in Pakistan and raised on the beaches of Kuwait, she left home to study writing across the United States. When not at her desk preparing lesson plans, writing, or researching, she can be found jumping into lakes and rivers during long hikes, even though she always forgets a bathing suit and must sit in the car in her cold, wet clothes on the ride home. She is a Cancer sun and moon, so she never regrets being in water. She lives with her husband and two cats.