All are welcome to join the Alumni Association for this meaningful time of reflection. Held quarterly, the Remembrance Ceremony memorializes individuals who have died in the previous three months.

We welcome back June 2026 residency emcee Donna Denizé (MFA '25) for the next in our Kwame Dawes Mapmakers Alumni Institute series, joined in conversation with faculty poet Safia Elhillo. Donna's lines of inquiry will engage with what Safia has called the "Poetics of the Third Space." Brought together by the MFA Alumni Council's Pacific Basin committee, the event is free and open to the public, and will be hosted on Zoom November 17 beginning at 5:30pm Pacific Time. Join us for this fascinating conversation.

Experience the architecture and early stories of Pacific University at the historic 1850 Old College Hall through museum tours hosted by volunteers from the Friends of Historic Forest Grove.

The Pacific MFA in Writing welcomes registrations for the Dec. Body Chronicles Session, "Neurodivergence & the Writer."

Come in from the cold and visit Old College Hall for the last open house of 2026. Learn more about Pacific University and the Forest Grove region by exploring the exhibits in the Old College Hall Museum and taking a tour led by a volunteer from the Friends of Historic Forest Grove.

Mapmakers Alumni Institute | Owólabi Aboyade and Jenny Linn Loveland in Conversation

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On the final Friday of our January residency, for the first time we're hosting a collaborative Mapmakers Alumni Institute, featuring Jenny Linn Loveland and Owólabi Aboyade, both 2025 graduates in nonfiction. Their conversation, which has emerged over years of friendship, will take up the topic of crafting the surreal in nonfiction writing.

Brought together by the MFA Alumni Council's Pacific Basin committee, the event is free and open to the public, and will be hosted on Zoom January 15, 2027, beginning at 9:00am Pacific Time. Join us.

Earn up to 30 hours of COPE-Accredited Continuing Education and come experience all that Maui has to offer.