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."
Maryam Ala Amjadi is a poet and translator from Iran. For her, the act of translating is in itself a form of self-exile, because the writer is forced to distance themselves from their mother tongue and in so doing, they become spectators both of...