Engelbrecht is currently pursuing a MFA in photography at The University of Iowa. He lives in Iowa City with his wife Tiffany and two sons, Joshua and Adam.
Rob Ostheimer graduated from The University of Iowa with both a BA in English and an MA in American Studies. He resides now in Washington, DC, where he works as a Web designer and creates video documentaries in his spare time.
Schott works as a PhD student in the College of Education at The University of Iowa, studying identity, language, and new literacies, and as a teacher in an Cedar Rapids high school teaching language arts and new literacies.
Of himself, Daniel Luchman says, "A narrative recipe: I transform personal experiences by layering them with cultural and historic knowledge, distancing them from their source [me] to achieve a more universal dimension- or- highly particular...
Of himself, Daniel Luchman says, "A narrative recipe: I transform personal experiences by layering them with cultural and historic knowledge, distancing them from their source [me] to achieve a more universal dimension- or- highly particular...
Jennifer Proctor is a filmmaker and former Managing Director of the Cinematexas Short Film Festival and Austin Cinemaker Co-op. Her work has shown at Lincoln Center, Aurora Picture Show, Portland Documentary & Experimental Film Fest, Basement...
Aaron Valdez is a film and video artist from Houston, Texas. His work has been played to international audiences at such festivals as New York Underground, RESFEST, Edinburgh Film Festival, Chicago Underground, Images Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film...
Body Beasts is a multimedia investigation into the uncanny nature of dust mites. The surreal, six minute film depicts used sweaters that are manipulated and sown into shapes of grotesquely enlarged bugs. The abject creatures traverse the landscape...
Matthew J. Wagner was born in Iowa City, Iowa, and attended both elementary and secondary schools locally. He has lived in Seattle, Wash., and a small town in the Catskill Mountains of New York called Cornwallville. While drafting iconographic...
Of himself, Budy writes, "My great-grandparents were French. They met on the boat coming to America. I attended the translation graduate program at the University of Iowa."
Todd Papke grew up on a farm in eastern Iowa and left home at 18 to seek fortune and adventure. He has ridden his motorcycles over 200,000 miles across the US, Canada, and Mexico. Along the way he worked at the Pentagon, Disney, Questia, The...
Laura Waldo-Semken was born in 1969, in Kansas City, Missouri. Her parents divorced when she was two. She grew up mostly in Kansas City, Kansas, with her two older brothers; one of her brothers died in 1980 at age 18. She also has a stepsister and...
Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859; Hunter, Rowland; Hunter, Ann Kent; Holt, Thomas;
Concerning his request for Mr. Damiani's criticism of his Essay on heroi-comic poetry, in which Hunt discusses Tassoni's La sacchia rapita and Boileau's Lutrin; the damnation of a play by Holt; Hunt will send a copy to have Hunter note language and...
Concerning his illness; his plans to leave Gainsborough; the upcoming publication of the first number of the Statesman. Letter includes his 'Epistle to Miss Kent'.
Concerning his tenderness and love for her; the careless manner of her last letter and his cautioning her against falling into a "negligent state of affection".
University of Iowa Writers' Workshop alumna Sana Krasikov reads from her acclaimed short-story debut, "One More Year."
Krasikov was born in the Ukraine and grew up in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia and in the United States. She is a...