Louis Ho is in the third grade at Lincoln Elementary School in Iowa City. His poem was selected for the 2007 Poetry in Public project, sponsored by the Iowa City Public Art Program. Now in its fifth year, Poetry in Public displays poems by local...
Laurel Snyder moved to Iowa for the Writers' Workshop but stayed long after, waiting tables at the Hamburg Inn and ultimately marrying an Iowa boy. She has written a picture book, Inside the Slidy Diner, loosely based on her experiences at the...
Danielle Trussoni, a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, will read from her new memoir, "Falling Through the Earth," at 7 p.m. Monday, March 6 on the "Live from Prairie Lights" series on University of Iowa radio station WSUI-AM...
In addition to working at the University of Iowa's Honors Program, Sarah Prineas is a writer whose stories have appeared in Realms of Fantasy, Paradox, and Cicada, and in the Hugo-nominated online magazine Strange Horizons. Three of her stories...
Jessica Wilson is an MFA candidate in the Nonfiction Writing Program at The University of Iowa. She moved here from Boston last August and is finding a host of things to love about living in "flyover country."
Marcellus Warner Darling was a native of New York. He enlisted in Company K, 154th New York Volunteers on September 6, 1862. The 154th saw a great deal of action during the Civil War. Darling was wounded in the battle of Chancellorsville, was...
Correspondence details the 1865 wartime experiences of James Mead, who joined the army in 1862 and served in both the Iowa Infantry Volunteers and the U.S. Colored Volunteer Infantry.