By: Gracey Murphy [email protected] @graceyelyssa 20 years of travel, poetry, and teaching cannot prevent a writer from returning to the allure of Prairie Lights, 15 S. Dubuque St. Acclaimed...

By Girindra Selleck [email protected] James Alan McPherson, a professor emeritus at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, passed away...

Anna Noyes and Brian Booker will present new fiction collections at Prairie Lights this evening. By Gracey Murphy [email protected] Many strange and gratifying experiences can be found through...

Iowa and Hollywood will get a little closer this summer. In August 2016, an Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumnus will costar in a film directed by James Franco. David Shields explores questions about...

Garth Greenwell took a long path to Iowa City. He studied opera as an undergraduate, earned graduate degrees in poetry and English from Washington University in St. Louis and Harvard University, respectively,...