Jonathan Thirkield graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop with an MFA in Poetry. He has taught computational design and media focusing on visualization, code, data, and digital storytelling at...
Kyle McCord is an alumnus of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He has written seven books, one of which was a National Poetry...
Prairie Lights hosted author and Writer’s Workshop alumnus Stuart Nadler to read and discuss his latest novel, “Rooms for Vanishing,” with author Eula Biss on March 31. The novel centers around...
Joe Goodkin is a Chicago-based singer and songwriter who has spent much of his career reimagining Homeric stories through original songs and playing his music internationally in the bardic tradition....
Ada Calhoun is a bestselling nonfiction author from Saint Marks Place, New York. She had previously worked as a crime reporter for the New York Post and a theater listings editor for New York Magazine....
Steven Duong is a fiction writer and poet from San Diego, California. His short fiction has made an appearance in The American Poetry Review, The New England Review, and Guernica.
Duong is currently...
Born and raised in Michigan, Isaac Hamlet graduated from the University of Iowa majoring in English and minoring in Latin and journalism. In June 2022, he published his first book, “Light Keeper Chronicle:...
Queering a Church in the Heartland is a moving story about how one Iowan church found its way from exclusion to inclusion and ultimately grew deeper in its faith. Documenting their transformation and...
The English department’s student ambassador Ben Ahlrichs is an English and creative writing major on the publishing track. He shared formative experiences with his writing, ranging from leading writing...
Jennifer Colville is a community arts organizer and writer. She is the director of the Porch Light Literary Arts Centre, which provides a space for artists and writers to harness their crafts and find...
Jeff Biggers is an award-winning historian, journalist, novelist, and playwright. Biggers is based in Iowa and Italy and has experience working in the United States, Europe, India, and Mexico as a writer,...
Ross Taylor is a photographer, filmmaker, and educator who is currently an associate professor of journalism at the University of Colorado Boulder. In 2020, Taylor began filming Dr. P.J. Parmar as...
