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...
Rebecca McKanna is an associate professor at the University of Indianapolis and a graduate of the University of Iowa. Throughout her career, McKanna has written for New York Daily News and the Cedar...
Rebecca Keller is an internationally exhibited artist from Chicago, a professor of art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and most recently an author. She has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship...
Eileen Myles is a poet, novelist, and art journalist whose work has become a touchstone for the identity-fluid internet age. They graduated from the University of Massachusetts in Boston in 1971 and...
Jenny Singer is a first-year MFA student in the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program. Originally from Seattle, Washington, she has written for publications like *Glamour Magazine, The...
