Dennis Herrick received an M.A. in journalism at the University of Iowa. The former publisher of the Sun in Mount Vernon and Lisbon, he now teaches journalism at the University of New Mexico and writes fiction. He is the 2004 winner of the Tony...
Margalea Warner is a writer of poetry and essays. She has lived with mental illness since its onset in her early twenties, and themes of suffering, loss, recovery, faith, and joy run through her writings. She has had poems and essays published in...
Emily Dykstra is a human services professional in the Mason City area. Her previous publications include short fiction in The North American Review and several essays for Mason City's Globe Gazette and the Des Moines Register's Young Adult...
Huston Diehl is a professor of English at the University of Iowa. An award-winning teacher, she has published a number of essays on pedagogy as well as many articles on Renaissance literature. Dream Not of Other Worlds was published this month by...
Lyz Baranowski grew up in California, Texas, South Dakota and Minnesota, but says, 'I finally feel at home in Iowa.' Her essays have appeared in Dragonfire, Des Moines Register, Cedar Rapids Gazette, Iowa City Press-Citizen and The Contemporary...
Mark Edwards is a DNR worker who lives in Madrid, IA. 'Frog Holler Iowa' appears in issue #13 of The Wapsipinicon Almanac. Since 1988 the almanac has been edited by Tim Fay and published at his Route 3 Press in rural Anamosa/Monticello. Each...
Amy Leach lives in Chicago, where she teaches literature and plays the piano. A collection of her essays, Warbler Delight, was published by Pastoralia Press in 2007. "Stairs" and other work by Amy Leach can be found in the current (Spring 2008)...
Lance Larsen's third collection of poems is forthcoming from University of Tampa Press this year. His essays have appeared in Agni, Quarterly West, Hunger Mountain, Bellingham Review, and elsewhere. The entire essay "A Feeling in Your Head" appears...
Douglas Bauer has written three novels, Dexterity, The Very Air, and The Book of Famous Iowans, and a book of essays, The Stuff of Fiction: Advice on Craft. He has taught at Harvard and the University of New Mexico and has been writer-in-residence...
Amy Lee Scott is an MFA candidate in the Nonfiction Writing Program at The University of Iowa. Her essays and poems have appeared in JuiceBox Journal, The Iron Horse Literary Review, Quarter After Eight, and Brevity.
Melissa Delbridge has published essays and short stories in the Antioch Review, Southern Humanities Review, Third Coast, and other journals. She is an archivist in the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University and...
Tim Trenkle writes, "Most of my stories are portraits of Iowans who see neighbors with obstacles and want to help. I write about these common people and am one. I see faith and grit in Iowa. I also teach psychology and writing at a community...
Carter was a 1936 graduate of the School of Nursing at the State University of Iowa who was active in Democratic politics and whose correspondence includes round robin letters.