The MFA Program at CIIS invites writers and artists working in wide-ranging genres and forms to be in conversation with one another through classes, workshops, and events. We challenge our students to better articulate their work and connect with communities through engaging across disciplines in a culture of inquiry. Since 2009, Mission at Tenth manifests these conversations through presenting and promoting the inter-arts; we provoke dialogue between and among artists by placing innovative work from many genres, forms, and disciplines in relationship to each other. Mission at Tenth celebrates the diversity and complexity of our home in the San Francisco Bay Area while also adding to the inter-arts by publishing emerging and established artists who blur boundaries and extend borders through their work.