The Press has a 4-part mission under our umbrella: Community through Books.

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New Ground Books:  This imprint of the Pacific University Press publishes books of poetry, short stories, essays, and hybrid forms written by authors of cultures and groups underrepresented in mainstream publishing. New Ground invests in writers who use language to explore their own experience and cultural traditions in order to strengthen identity and expand understanding. All books in the series are edited and designed by student interns and editors in our Editing and Publishing Laboratory on our Forest Grove campus.

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Collaborate Books: We support faculty-student co-written books that build community and produce necessary and innovative knowledge. In collaboration with mentoring professors, students write, edit, design and promote monographs and collections. In the process, they gain practical experience that prepares them for futures in the crafting, shaping, curating, and dissemination of knowledge through books and other media in their professional fields. 

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Promotion of Books Written by Pacific University Faculty: These creative and scholarly contributions are published by commercial and university presses as well as community and self-publishing platforms. Because our professors are committed to the accessibility of their work, many of these books are on open access or other free or affordable platforms. We create online promotion, including interviews and reviews, to promote the Pacific community's research, textbooks, and literary art.

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Hands-on Experience - As part of our "create local, connect global" mission, we offer handmade book and zine workshops at the press office in Duniway House in Forest Grove.  We also offer printing options with our on-site small press book binder equipment. The press does not need to go through a third party printer to produce small artisan runs of a book.