Anthony Marra is a New York Times bestselling author and winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. His latest novel, “Mercury Pictures...
On April 26, author Michelle Huneven released her fifth book Search based on her time on a search committee. Huneven is a veteran of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, as she both received her Master of...
Jean Thompson has published fifteen books over the span of her career. She is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, has won the Pushcart Prize, has been featured in publications like Best American...
Robin Hemley was the director of the Nonfiction Writing Program at The University of Iowa for nine years, inaugural director of The Writers’ Centre at Yale-NUS, Singapore, and is a graduate of The...
Eric Gapstur is a comic book artist living in Eastern Iowa. Gapstur released his debut graphic novel titled Sort of Super at the end of March, which follows a middle-school boy who discovers he has...
Jennifer Fawcett graduated from the University of Iowa's MFA Playwrights Workshop and served as co-artistic director of Iowa's Working Group Theatre for 10 years. Her debut novel, Beneath the Stairs,...
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Melissa Febos was recently awarded the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award for...
John A. List is the Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. He is also the chief economist for Walmart. List works with state and federal governments...
Mike Meginnis is an academic coach with the Center for Inclusive and Academic Excellence at the University of Iowa. Accompanying his previously published works, including Fat Man and Little Boy and...
The word “defenestrate” means to throw or push someone out of a window.
University of Iowa’s Writers' Workshop alum and author Renee Branum’s debut novel titled, Defenestrate, takes place...
Petra Kuppers is the Anita Gonzalez Professor of Performance Studies and Disability Culture at the University of Michigan. Along with being an author and poet, she is a disability culture activist...
Candice Wuehle is a poet and author who grew up in Iowa City. She received an MA in literature from the University of Minnesota, an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a doctorate...
