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pacificmfa has been a member of Linktree for 4 years and joined in February 2022. Resources pacificmfa has populated their site with include: • Register for the Body Chronicles | "The Soft Animal of Your Body"| Dec. 5-7 (on Zoom) • Register for The Body Chronicles, "The Craft of Caregiving" | May 1-3, 2026 • REGISTER: Pacific MFA Fall 2026 Information Sessions • Register: Pacific MFA Information Session | October 7 | 5pm Pacific • Register: Pacific MFA Information Session | October 21 | 4pm Pacific • REGISTER: Nov. 17, 2026, 5:30pm: Mapmakers Alumni Institute | Safia Elhillo in Conversation with Donna Denizé • REGISTER: The Body Chronicles: Neurodivergence & the Writer, Dec. 4-6 • Coming in September: Body Chronicles: "Trans/Forms," online workshop, with Miller Oberman, b ferguson, and luna rey hall • REGISTER: Nov. 12, 2026, 5p: POEM FIRE: A conversation with Frank X. Gaspar and Ellen Bass • Register for The Body Chronicles: "Trans/Forms," Sept. 5-7, online, featuring Miller Oberman, b ferguson, and luna rey hall • VIDEO NOW AVAILABLE: MFA Alumni Council Special Event | with Paul Elie, Majda Gama, and Michael Hahn • APRIL 2—2025 Whiteley Distinguished Lecture featuring Oregon Book Award Winner and MFA Faculty Omar El Akkad • WATCH the Mapmakers Alumni Institute | "Between Sighs: Writing through Grief" | from Dec. 8, 5:30 - 6:30pm Pacific (on Zoom) • Support the Amy Paterson '18 Fund for Medical Narratives • March 27—"Writing Toward Community" with Anaphora Arts and Blue Flower Arts and AWP Los Angeles! • Register for STRATA: "Drawing from Real Life on the Margins," with Cecily Wong and Tyree Daye | April 11-13 | online • In Memory: Amy Paterson MFA ’18 | Pacific University • Winter 2025 Pacific MFA in Writing Faculty Reading Series | January 10-17 | Seaside, Oregon • Summer 2026 Pacific MFA in Writing Newsletter • Pacific University MFA in Writing Program Admissions • December 6-8, 2024—Register for The Body Chronicles: Writing Pain with Danusha Laméris, Mahtem Shiferraw, Ann Neumann, Caroline Catlin, and Joanne Godley • Register for STRATA (online Sept 27-29): "Writing Angry, Writing 'Happy,' Writing from the Margins" w/ Jamaica Baldwin and Omar El Akkad • Catherine-Esther Cowie MFA '19 Shortlisted for the Jerwood Prize • REGISTER: The Body Chronicles: Writing the Pandemic and Long COVID • Watch the Mapmakers Alumni Institute | April 29, 2025 | LITERARY SOUNDSCAPES, featuring Marcia Douglas and Dawnie Walton, hosted by Njara Hamilton (MFA '24) • Register for STRATA: "The struggle & The Struggle for Writers on the Margins," three-day Masterclass with Siddhartha Deb & Laura Warrell • Watch the Mapmakers Alumni Institute | Writing as Resistance, Revolution | January 17, 2025 | featuring David Mura, hosted by Shella Parcarey (MFA '24) • Watch the Mapmakers Alumni Institute | **Bilingualism is an Invitation, Not a Wall** | Featuring Manuel Iris, Mathangi Subramanian, and Beatriz Brenes Mora ’24 MFA • Kwame Dawes Is Jamaica’s New Poet Laureate | In Portland's Willamette Week • VIDEOS—Fall and Winter 2023-24 Mapmakers Alumni Institute, w/ Angela Wang '23, Now Available • Oregon's poet laureate, Anis Mojgani, demystifies art, expression at Pacific University • VOICES, a BIPOC Adoptee Reading | Hosted by Constellation Readings Series • Old College Hall Speakers Series featuring Mindy (Cottrell) Cameron '65, MFA '18 • June 23 | Mapmakers Alumni Institute | "The Challenge of Criticism" | w/ Maria Bustillos & Jane Hu • Mapmakers Alumni Institute | Mooded Texts: Affect and Craft, April 11, 2023, with Chang-rae Lee and Michael Hahn • Mapmakers Alumni Institute | Global Perspective II: Ecopoetics and Eco-writing, January 13, 2023, with Sudeep Sen and Rhony Bhopla • Mapmakers Alumni Institute: Ecopoetics and Eco-writing, Oct. 31, 2022, feat. Shivanee Ramlochan and Rajiv Mohabir • Mapmakers Alumni Institute: Things Left Unsaid, June 24, 2022, feat. Leila Chatti • Mapmakers Alumni Institute: Folklore Revisited, April 14, 2022, hosted by N.L. Shompole (Poetry '22) • Kesha Ajose Fisher in Conversation with Scott Korb about NO GOD LIKE THE MOTHER • Joseph Millar in Conversation with Kwame Dawes about DARK HARVEST • Mapmakers Alumni Institute 2021-22 Playlist (feat. Catherine-Esther Cowie) • Morgan Jerkins in Conversation with Scott Korb about CAUL BABY • Callum Angus in Conversation with Torrey Peters about A NATURAL HISTORY OF TRANSITION • Pacific University MFA Faculty Perspectives Playlist • Find us on YouTube