Cleo Qian is a poet and fiction writer from California. She received her creative writing MFA from NYU after studying literature at the University of Cambridge-King Pembroke Programme. Her short story...
More than six centuries since the publication of one of the earliest canon frame narratives, Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales” remains an ever-present topic of discussion in contemporary...
John J. Waters graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy with a degree in English literature in 2009. Not long after, the Nebraska-born author served in the Marine Corps for nearly seven years. A week...
Elizabeth “Liz” Gilbert Bedia is a children’s book author known best for “Bess The Barn Stands Strong”(named one of the “Superlative Books of 2020” by BookPage), “Arthur Wants a Balloon,”...
From Erie, Pennsylvania, author Anya Johanna DeNiro released her surrealist short novel “OKPsyche” in September of this year, which tells the story of an unnamed transgendered woman living through...
Tim Johnston is a New York Times bestselling author who graduated from the University of Iowa and went to the University of Massachusetts-Amherst for graduate school. He has written “The Current,”...
Zainub Priya Dala is an Indian writer, psychologist, and physical therapist from South Africa. She wrote two books, “What About Meera” and “The Architecture of Loss,” the first of which won...
Ayana Mathis is a graduate and former faculty member of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. While earning her MFA at Iowa, Mathis wrote her first bestselling novel, “The Twelve Tribes of Hattie,” which...
Nathan Hill initially declared his major as biomedical engineering when he arrived at the University of Iowa in 1995, but shortly after, he realized the pen was mightier than the beaker. Hill graduated...
Noelle Q. de Jesus is a translator, editor, and fiction writer at the Iowa International Writing Program. Her works have been featured at literary festivals in the U.S., the Philippines and Singapore....
Students and community members gathered in the Field House last Monday for a game of volleyball. The only rule was that voices were not allowed. Players could only communicate through American Sign Language...
Leslie Lehr wears many hats: writer, director, mother, and survivor. In her new book, “A Boob’s Life,” released in March of 2021, Lehr describes how she realized a broader, cultural obsession...
