On Wednesday, October 21, at 4pm Pacific Time, director Scott Korb and assistant director Jennifer Scanlon will be hosting a virtual information session to discuss the MFA program and our Residency Writers Conference. We're eager to see you!

On Wednesday, November 4, at 4pm Pacific Time, director Scott Korb and assistant director Jennifer Scanlon will be hosting a virtual information session to discuss the MFA program and our Residency Writers Conference. We're eager to see you!

Join for this thrilling conversation between Pacific MFA faculty poets Frank X. Gaspar and Ellen Bass on the occasion of the release of Gaspar's POEM FIRE: NEW AND SELECTED.

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.

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

We welcome back June 2025 graduate Carol Young for the first Kwame Dawes Mapmakers Alumni Institute event of 2027. Carol will be joined in conversation by Victoria Chang, whose most recent book of poems, TREE OF KNOWLEDGE, was long listed for the National Book Award. Carol was directly concerned with Victoria Chang's poetry—especially its ekphrastic vision—in the critical essay portion of her thesis, "A Kind of Praying." The reading and conversation will consider Carol's interest in understanding Victoria Chang's habits of mind.

Brought together by the MFA Alumni Council's Pacific Basin committee, the event is free and open to the public. Join us for this fascinating conversation.

The June Commencement ceremony is the culmination of years of academic work for Pacific University graduate students in the Master of Fine Arts in Writing program in the College of Behavioral Sciences, Learning, and Leadership. We are proud to celebrate the achievements of our graduating students.