News, Media and Stories | Class Of 2009

Abby Murray MFA ’09 was chosen by the Tacoma (Wash.) Arts Commission as the city’s Poet Laureate of 2019 to 2021.
Kathryn “Kitty” Jospé MFA ’09 was recently featured in The Ekphrastic Review, an online journal, for her poem “Where Do You Go?”
Abby Murray MFA ’09 won the 2019 Perugia Press Prize for her debut poetry collection, Hail and Farewell, forthcoming in Sept. 2019.
Alissa Hattman MFA ’09 was recently published on online literary journal, Gravel.
Whitney Osborn ’09 and Maggie Wigness ’10 were married on Sept. 22, 2018, in Washington, D.C.
Rachael (Burbank) ’09 and Ross Singmaster were married on Sept. 29, 2018, in Hyannis Port, Mass.
Aaron Cole ’09, OD ’12 was formally inducted into the Rotary Club of Southwest Eureka (Calif.).
PJ Griess ’09 and Leandra (Schaffer) ’11 welcomed their daughter, Avery Joanne Schaffer Griess, on Sept. 28, 2018.   
Dr. Agbo portrait
After earning his doctor of pharmacy from Pacific, Peter Agbo PharmD '09 went on to receive a master of public health and a doctor of medicine degree. Today, he spends most of his time at the hospital where he works. But he's also founded a nonprofit organization and takes fellow healthcare providers back home to West Africa annually to serve those without access to healthcare.
Bridgett Pride ’09 earned a master’s degree in Library and Information Science as well as a master’s degree of Arts in History from Simmons College in Boston, Mass.

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