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MFA Faculty Member Kwame Dawes was honored for his poetry by the judges of the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prizes. The award was announced in London during the week of the London Book Fair.
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?”
Angela Mart OT ’06 has worked at Wallowa Memorial Hospital in Enterprise, Ore., as an occupational therapist for the last three years.
Renee Reitmeier MAT ’00 is the owner of the newly opened Fika Sisters (Ore.) Coffeehouse, a café inspired by Swedish coffee culture.
Steve Paranto ’79, MST ’84 recently started podcast series Pickleball Talks with Steve Paranto. 
On Cussing by Katherine Dunn
Pacific University's Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program has established a scholarship fund in Dunn's name to empower exceptional female writers.
Oregon’s first National Advocacy Dinner was held on March 7th at Pacific University.National Advocacy Dinners help students engage in advocacy for the physical therapy profession.
Tessa Nelson '19
Pacific senior Tessa Nelson '19 is the 2018-19 recipient of the LGBTQ+ Coral Scholarship.
Andretta (Journey) Schellinger ’05 published her most recent book, The Men Beyond the Stones, a look into the lives of the 14 service members who are immortalized at the Maryhill Stonehenge in Goldendale, Wash.

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