Dan Black (age 60), Vice President of Facilities and Security at MidWestOne Bank, tells Nanette Barkey about his experience entering the flooded bank to retrieve materials from safety deposit boxes. Black remembers the surreal appearance of the...
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The three Mann brothers of Fremont County, Iowa, were all soldiers in Company A of the 4th Iowa Volunteer Cavalry. Eldest brother, William enlisted on Oct. 2, 1861 at age 34. He was promoted to Veterinary Surgeon on Feb. 10, 1864 and was mustered...
Papers describing the war experiences of Palmer, who was from Washington County, Iowa and fought with the 8th Iowa Infantry and later the 25th Iowa Infantry. He was severely wounded in the Battle of Shiloh but recovered and was promoted to captain...
A longtime Iowa City resident, Nobles has recently moved to Texas. She has exhibited nationally and internationally for many years, most recently at Hibberd McGrath Gallery (Breckenridge, CO); Mobilia (Cambridge, MA); Thirteen Moons (Santa Fe, NM)...
Hamlin Garland (1860-1940) was born in Wisconsin and grew up in homesteads in Winneshiek County and Mitchell County, Iowa. 'Under the Lion's Paw' appeared in his short story collection Main-Travelled Roads (1891).
Lucia Nevai is the author of Seriously, a novel, published by Little, Brown. Her first collection of stories, Star Game, won the Iowa Short Fiction Award. Born in Des Moines, she now makes her home in upstate New York. “Interment” first...
Zakery's Bridge: Children's Journeys from Around the World to the Heartland is a collection of nonfiction stories based on conversations with refugee and immigrant children in Iowa. For more information about this forthcoming book, please contact...
Thomas Burnell Colbert is Professor of Social Sciences and Humanities at Marshalltown Community College, where he has taught American Indian history and Iowa history, among many other subjects, for twenty-five years. Editor Zachary Michael Jack...
Len Joy lives in Evanston, Illinois with his wife and three children. For fifteen years Joy owned and operated an automobile engine remanufacturing company in Phoenix. In the past year his work has appeared in Hobart, 3:AM Magazine,...
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."
Marian Mathews Clark earned an MFA from the Iowa's Writers' Workshop. She has published fiction in Story and The Sun and nonfiction in Dutiful Daughters and Persimmon Tree. She has taught in the Summer Writing Festival, and for twenty years has...
Susan Glaspell (1876-1948), born in Davenport, Iowa, was one of the preeminent American writers of the early twentieth century. She wrote fourteen groundbreaking plays, nine novels, and some fifty short stories, producing a body of work that was...