Debra Marquart, coordinator of the creative writing program at Iowa State University, reads from her memoir, "The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere."
Critic Pamela Crossland wrote, "Marquart has an interesting bio: she's...
Ananya Roy is Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning where she teaches in the fields of comparative urban studies and international development. She also serves as Education Director of the Blum Center for Developing Economies...
Mark A. Grey, Ph.D. is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Northern Iowa. He is also Director of the Iowa Center for Immigrant Leadership and Integration. The Center is an award-winning program that provides consultation, training and...
James A. Leach served 30 years as a representative in Congress where he chaired the Banking and Financial Services Committee, the Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, and the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. Leach attended...
Gregory Rabassa, the revered translator of Gabriel Garcia Marquez whose English version of 100 Years of Solitude put contemporary Latin American fiction on the literary map for English-language readers, reads from his memoir, If This Be Treason:...
National Book Award finalist Dan Chaon reads from "Await Your Reply," his acclaimed new literary thriller.
Three characters' lives intertwine as Chaon walks the lines that separate reality from the truths they have created, making "Await Your...
Joshua Weiner reads from his second collection of poems, "From the Book of Giants."
Weiner, who teaches at the University of Maryland, is the recipient of both a Whiting Award and the Rome Prize from the Academy of American Poets. His previous...
University of Iowa Writers' Workshop faculty member Marilynne Robinson reads from "Home," the companion to her Pulitzer Prize-winning "Gilead." She is introduced by Derek Willard.
"Home," which is a finalist for the National Book Award, portrays...
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass, in conjunction with receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Iowa, reads from his work.
Hass was a visiting faculty member in the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1995 when he was selected U.S. Poet...
Katie Ford and fellow Iowa Summer Writing Festival faculty member Douglas Goetsch read at Prairie Lights.
Katie Ford boasts an unusual set of credentials -- Master of Divinity from Harvard and Master of Fine Arts from the UI. She is the author of...
UI Writers' Workshop alumna/faculty member Lan Samantha Chang reads from her new novel, "Inheritance,"
"Inheritance" follows her highly acclaimed debut, "Hunger." Set in China and America, the novel has been described as "a timeless story of...
Patricia Foster and Jeff Porter, Professors in The University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program, read from their newly edited collection, Understanding the Essay. The volume treats the essay with the close attention that has been given to other...
Fiction writer Tom Barbash, a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a recent faculty member in the UI Summer Writing Festival, reads from his debut novel, “The Last Good Chance
Barbash’s fiction has appeared in periodicals...
Fiction writer Joshua Ferris, an English and philosophy alumnus of the University of Iowa, reads from his new book, "The Unnamed
The "unnamed" of the title is an odd syndrome that afflicts Tim Farnsworth, a handsome, healthy man, aging with the...
Experimental fiction writer Mary Caponegro reads from her new fiction collection, "All Fall Down."
A faculty member at Bard College, Caponegro ("The Complexities of Intimacy" and "Five Doubts") uses linguistic complexity and surrealism in her...