Iowa native Mary Vermillion pens mystery novels and teaches English at Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids. Her first novel, Death by Discount - a finalist for two Lambda awards - portrays Wal-Mart's impact on small towns. Her second novel, Murder...
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...
Doug Hesse was happily raised in DeWitt, Iowa, and its surrounding farms, timbers, and creek beds. He was educated at the University of Iowa and is currently Director of the University Writing Program and Professor of English at the University of...
Ron Sandvik was born and raised in Cedar Falls. He believes one of the great powers of Iowa, of the prairie, is how it continually seduces its residents through the gestural force and delicate shadings of each season. 'Cold Chicken' can be found...
Nancy Crovetti writes: 'The Midwest is in my blood: my parents, Des Moines natives, migrated to New England as newlyweds in 1935. I came back to Iowa in '94, settling in Lamoni; have been a cancer survivor thanks to University Hospitals in '99 and...
Marc Nieson lives in Pittsburgh, PA, where he can typically be found writing, teaching, or soccer mom-ing. 'Every December,' which appears in the Winter 2007-08 issue of The Iowa Review, is excerpted from his forthcoming memoir of living in Iowa,...
This poem originally appeared in Volume 5, Number 1 of 100 Words, a journal published by the University of Iowa's International Writing Program between 1993 and 1998. Each piece in the journal had to be 100 words or fewer, and each issue had a...
Here in the midst of climate change, Barbara Haas finds it necessary to focus on the Iowa Ice Age, especially the Des Moines Lobe, not only its effects on the land but also its romantic aspects. Her most recent glacier-related work appears in the...
One of 18 scrapbooks on Wood's career, containing letters, postcards, photographs, clippings, and miscellany; compiled by Nan Wood Graham, sister of Grant Wood.