Originally from Massachusetts, Will Mentor is a former professor at the University of Iowa and is currently teaching at St. Michael's College in Vermont. Mentor has exhibited his work nationally and internationally in group and solo shows every...
Michael Groesbeck was born and raised in Charles City, Iowa, but at age 16 moved with his mother and sister to Des Moines, where he has lived for 23 years. He graduated from Grand View College in 1999 with a BA in Creative and Performing Arts with...
Doug Russell moved to Kansas City in 1999 after a two year teaching position in Bursa, Turkey. He holds an MFA in printmaking from the University of Iowa and a BFA in painting from Columbia College. He has shown in Kansas City at The Michael Cross...
Michael Groesbeck was born and raised in Charles City, Iowa, but at age 16 moved with his mother and sister to Des Moines, where he has lived for 23 years. He graduated from Grand View College in 1999 with a BA in Creative and Performing Arts with...
Doug Russell moved to Kansas City in 1999 after a two year teaching position in Bursa, Turkey. He holds an MFA in printmaking from the University of Iowa and a BFA in painting from Columbia College. He has shown in Kansas City at The Michael Cross...
Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881–1958) received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1956. Michael Carey farms in southwest Iowa near the town of Farragut. He is the author of a teaching manual and five books of poetry. “The Little Green...
Michael Culross, a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, lives in Gig Harbor, Washington. “The Poet-Teacher” appeared in the Winter 2004-05 issue of The Iowa Review as part of a tribute to poet Donald Justice, who died in August 2004.
Sue Day-Scales Wallace graduated from the University of Iowa in 1990 with a B.A. in Communications. She has held positions in marketing, public relations, sales, and most recently she became the Assistant Director of Development for Fontbonne...
A Mechanicsville native and graduate of Iowa City High and Iowa State University, Zachary Michael Jack worked as an Iowa public librarian and newspaper section editor before becoming a college professor. The author or editor of more than a half...
Michael Cunningham received his MFA at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His books include Specimen Days (2005), The Hours (1998), and A Home at the End of the World (1990).
Sandra McPherson's tenth collection is Expectation Days (Illinois, 2007). She has taught at the University of California at Davis since 1985. For four years in the 1970s she taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is editor and publisher of Swan...
Robley Wilson retired from teaching at the University of Northern Iowa in 2000 and lives in Florida with his wife, Susan Hubbard, and five cats. His most recent novel is The World Still Melting (Thomas Dunne, 2005). 'Portraits of the Wives' was...
Debra Marquart is a professor of English at Iowa State University. Her work has appeared in numerous journals. 'Riding Shotgun through Iowa with Quest' first appeared in her collection Everything's a Verb (New Rivers Press, 1995) and was reprinted...
Jane Mead's collection of poetry, The Usable Field, will be out from Alice James in 2008. She is the author of two previous collections of poetry, House of Poured-Out Waters (Illinois, 2001) and The Lord and the General Din of the World,...
Diane Frank is author of five books of poems, including The Winter Life of Shooting Stars and Entering the Word Temple. Her friends describe her as a harem of seven women in one very small body. She has mentored hundreds of writers at San Francisco...
Jonathan G. Andelson teaches anthropology and directs the Center for Prairie Studies at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, where he joined the faculty in 1974. Editor Zachary Michael Jack compiled Letters to a Young Iowan (Ice Cube Press, 2007)...