As the doors of one of the Iowa City Book Festival’s final events opened, literary fans were eager to file in. The Local Author Book Fair took place at MERGE on Sunday afternoon, allowing writers from...
Author and University of Iowa educator Hanna Bonner, Iowa Writers’ Workshop alum and film professor Julia Anna Morrison, and poet and filmmaker Perry Janes spoke on a panel during the Refocus Film...
Reality Winner.
Over the past eight years, that name has sparked comments and controversy ever since Winner leaked a classified government report to newspaper outlets following the 2016 election.
Winner’s...
Prairie Lights hosted author and translator, Bruna Dantas Lobato, to read her debut novel, “Blue Light Hours.” This coming-of-age story centers around a young woman at a liberal arts college in...
Sandra Cisneros, Joy Harjo, and Juan Felipe Herrera spoke at the University of Iowa on Sept. 27. All three panelists graduated from the Writers’ Workshop, and Cisneros and Harjo were in the program...
In November 2022, writer, educator, and scholar Gene Jarrett’s biographical novel “Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird” finally hit book stands after 15 years of deliberate...
In Pakistan, Ikram Basra was known as a poet and journalist, and graduated from the University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop in 2021. Being a multidisciplinary writer and a witness to international justices...
The defining attribute that makes a writer a writer is debatable — it’s a job title, a history of published work, or an ambition to actualize the abstract. Most of all, though, what makes a writer...
Kenny Lee is the University of Iowa’s newest Symphony Orchestra conductor, responsible for leading the UI Orchestra in their first concert of the school year. A skilled cellist, Lee looks forward...
Reece A. Caven is a senior at the University of Iowa studying creative writing. Caven decided he wanted to pursue writing while attending basic training in the National Guard during his enrollment....
Maryann Lesert is a writer, activist, and professor who has written three full-length plays, five one-act plays, and articles regarding sustainability and environmental activism. A Michigan native, her...
Harper Steele is an American writer and filmmaker from Iowa City. She worked on sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live from 1995-2008, during which time she was promoted to the role of writing supervisor...
