Past faculty
Chris Adrian
Fiction | 2017 Chris Adrian is the author of the novels Gob's Grief, The Children's Hospital, and The Great Night, and the story collection A Better Angel ...
Alexia Arthurs
Fiction | 2018, 2019, 2020; Summer 2023 Alexia Arthurs is the author of the short story collection, How to Love a Jamaican. A graduate of the ...
Josh Bell
Poetry | 2016; Summer 2016 Josh Bell has taught in the MFA program at Columbia University and is currently Briggs Copeland Lecturer on English ...
Brian Blanchfield
Poetry | 2017 Brian Blanchfield is the author of three books of poetry and prose, including Proxies: Essays Near Knowing, for which ...
Daniel Borzutsky
Poetry | 2021 Daniel Borzutsky is the author of Lake Michigan (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), The Performance of ...
Suzanne Buffam
Poetry | 2016 Suzanne Buffam is the author of three collections of poetry, A Pillow Book (Canarium, 2016), The Irrationalist ...
Frances De Pontes Peebles
Fiction | 2019 Frances de Pontes Peebles is the author of The Seamstress and The Air You Breathe. Both books have been translated widely ...
Amber Dermont
Fiction | 2017 Amber Dermont is the author of The New York Times best-selling novel, The Starboard Sea, and the short story collection ...
Angela Flournoy
Fiction | 2021 Angela Flournoy is the author of The Turner House, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and a New ...
James Galvin
Poetry | James Galvin has published eight books of poems, most recently Everything We Always Knew Was True (Copper Canyon Press ...
V.V. Ganeshananthan
Fiction | V.V. Ganeshananthan, a fiction writer and journalist, is the author of the novel Love Marriage (Random House, 2008) ...
Abby Geni
Fiction | 2019-2022 Abby Geni is the author of the novels The Wildlands and The Lightkeepers, as well as a short story collection, The Last ...
Garth Greenwell
Fiction | 2020 Garth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was ...
Yaa Gyasi
Fiction | 2022 Yaa Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. Her debut novel, Homegoing, won her the National ...
Lauren Haldeman
Poetry | 2018 Lauren Haldeman is the author of Instead of Dying (winner of the 2017 Colorado Prize for Poetry), Calenday, and ...
Benjamin Hale
Fiction | 2016 Benjamin Hale is the author of the novel The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore (Twelve, 2011), and two new books of fiction ...
Paul Harding
Fiction | 2018 Paul Harding is the author of two novels, Enon and Tinkers, which was awarded the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ...
Duriel Harris
Poetry | 2023 Duriel E. Harris is a poet, performer, and sound artist. She is author of three print volumes of poetry, including her ...
Adam Haslett
Fiction | 2018 Adam Haslett is the author of three works of fiction: Imagine Me Gone, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National ...
Ladee Hubbard
Fiction | 2023 Ladee Hubbard is the author of the novels The Talented Ribkins which received the 2018 Ernest J. Gaines Award for ...
Daniel Khalastchi
Poetry | Summer 2021 Daniel is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He is the author of ...
Adam Levin
Fiction | 2016 Adam Levin is the author of the novel, The Instructions (2010), and the short story collection, Hot Pink (2012), both ...
Layli Long Soldier
Poetry | Fall 2018
Layli Long Soldier is the author of the chapbook Chromosomory (2010) and the full-length collection Whereas (2017)
Rebecca Makkai
Fiction | 2015 Rebecca Makkai is the author of the short story collection, Music for Wartime, published in June, 2015, and the novels ...
Anthony Marra
Fiction | 2022 Anthony Marra is the New York Times bestselling author of The Tsar of Love and Techno and A Constellation ...
Jane Mead
Poetry | 2016 Jane Mead is the author of five books of poetry, most recently World of Made and Unmade, and Money Money Money ...
Harryette Mullen
Poetry | 2019 Harryette Mullen is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Urban Tumbleweed, Recyclopedia, and ...
Amanda Nadelberg
Poetry | Summer 2017, 2019 Amanda Nadelberg is the author of three books of poetry: Songs from a Mountain (Coffee House Press ...
Amy Parker
Fiction | 2020, Summer 2022 Amy Parker is the author of Beasts and Children (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016), described by Kirkus ...
Mark Jude Poirier
Fiction | Summer 2017 Mark Jude Poirier is the author of two collections of short stories, Unsung Heroes of American Industry, and Naked ...
D.A. Powell
Poetry | 2017 D. A. Powell is the author of five original poetry collections, including the trilogy of Tea (Wesleyan University Press ...
Marilynne Robinson
Fiction | Marilynne Robinson is the author of four novels, including Gilead (2005), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; Home (2008) ...
Margaret Ross
Poetry | 2022 Margaret Ross is the author of A Timeshare. Her poems and translations have appeared in The New Republic, The Paris ...
Vanessa Roveto
Poetry | 2022 Vanessa Roveto is the author of bodys (Iowa, 2016), and a women (Kuhl House Poets, 2020)
Prageeta Sharma
Poetry | 2017 Prageeta Sharma is the author of Bliss to Fill (Subpress Collective, 2000), The Opening Question (Fence Books ...
F. Bennett Sims
Fiction | 2016 Bennett Sims is the author of the novel, A Questionable Shape, winner of the 2014 Bard Fiction Prize. Sims has ...
Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
Fiction | 2020 Novuyo Rosa Tshuma is the author of the novel House of Stone, winner of the 2019 Edward Stanford Travel Writing ...
Tony Tulathimutte
Fiction | Summer 2020 Tony Tulathimutte’s novel Private Citizens was called “the first great millennial novel” by New York Magazine. A ...
Madhuri Vijay
Fiction | 2021 Madhuri Vijay was born and raised in Bangalore. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, and her short fiction has ...
Nikki Wallschlaeger
Poetry | 2021-2022 Nikki Wallschlaeger is the author of poetry collections, Houses (Horse Less Press, 2015) and Crawlspace (Bloof Books, 2017) ...
Jess Walter
Fiction | 2018 Jess Walter is the author of eight books, including the 2013 #1 New York Times bestseller, Beautiful Ruins; The Zero, finalist ...
Dawnie Walton
Fiction | 2022 Dawnie Walton is a writer, editor, and author of the novel The Final Revival of Opal & Nev, winner of the Aspen Words Literary Prize ...
Simone White
Poetry | 2018 Simone White is the author of three collections, Dear Angel of Death, Of Being Dispersed, and House of Envy of All the World ...
Emily Wilson
Poetry | 2018, 2019, 2022 Emily Wilson is the author of The Keep, Micrographia, and The Great Medieval Yellows. Educated at Harvard University ...
Jenny Zhang
Fiction | Summer 2021 Jenny’s debut story collection, Sour Heart, conjures the experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American ...
2015 and Before
Charles Baxter
Fiction | 2012 Charles Baxter is the author of five novels, five collections of short stories, three collections of poems, and two collections ...
Dan Beachy-Quick
Poetry | 2010 Dan Beachy-Quick is the author of five books of poetry: Circle's Apprentice, North True South Bright, Spell, Mulberry ...
Arda Collins
Poetry | 2012-2013 Arda Collins is the author of It Is Daylight, winner of the 2008 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Her poems ...
Michele Glazer
Poetry | 2013 Michele Glazer's books of poems are It Is Hard to Look at What We Came to Think We'd Come to See (Pittsburgh, 1998) ...
Andrew Sean Greer
Fiction | 2012, 2013 Andrew Sean Greer is the bestselling author of The Story of a Marriage, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, The Path of Minor ...
Allan Gurganus
Fiction | 2022 Allan Gurganus's books include, Local Souls, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, Plays Well with Others, White People ...
Ryan Harty
Fiction | 2012 Ryan Harty is the author of Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona. A Stegner fellow and a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop ...
Michelle Huneven
Fiction | 2011 Michelle Huneven is the author of three novels: Blame, Jamesland, and Round Rock. Her nonfiction writings includes restaurant ...
T. Geronimo Johnson
Fiction | 2014-2015 T. Geronimo Johnson is the author of the novel, Hold It 'Til It Hurts, which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award ...
Richard Kenney
Poetry | 2013-2014 Richard Kenney is the author of four books of poetry: The Evolution of the Flightless Bird, Orrery, The Invention of the Zero ...
Mark Leidner
Poetry | Summer 2015 Mark Leidner is the author of Beauty Was the Case They Gave Me (Factory Hollow, 2011) and The Angel in the Dream ...
Yiyun Li
Fiction | 2015 Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing and came to the United States in 1996 to pursue a PhD in immunology but stopped short to ...
Dora Malech
Poetry | 2013, Summer 2014 Dora Malech is the author of two collections of poetry, Shore Ordered Ocean, published by the Waywiser Press ...
Joyelle McSweeney
Poetry | 2012-2013 Joyelle McSweeney is the author of two hybrid-genre novels: Flet, and Nylund, the Sarcographer. She is also the author of ...
Geoffrey Nutter
Poetry | 2011 Geoffrey Nutter is the author of four books of poems, The Rose of January, Christopher Sunset, Water's Leaves & Other Poems ...
Peter Orner
Fiction | 2011 Peter Orner is the author of the novels, Love and Shame and Love and The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, and the story ...
Daniel Orozco
Fiction | 2013 Daniel Orozco's stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, as well as in magazines ...
Julie Orringer
Fiction | 2012 Julie Orringer is the author of The Invisible Bridge, a novel, and How to Breathe Underwater, a short story collection ...
ZZ Packer
Fiction | 2011 ZZ Packer is a graduate of Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop ...
Karen Russell
Fiction | 2014 Karen Russell is the author of three books of fiction, most recently, the story collection, Vampires in the Lemon Grove ...
Robyn Schiff
Poetry | 2010 Robyn Schiff is the author of the poetry collections Revolver (2008) and Worth (2002), both published by the University of ...
Brenda Shaughnessy
Poetry | 2015 Brenda Shaughnessy is a poet and editor. Her most recent book, Human Dark With Sugar (Copper Canyon, 2008) ...
Rod Smith
Poetry | 2010 Rod Smith's latest collection, Deed, was published by the University of Iowa Press in the fall of 2007. He is also ...
Donna Stonecipher
Poetry | 2014 Donna Stonecipher is the author of The Reservoir and Souvenir de Constantinople. Her third book, The Cosmopolitan ...
Mary Szybist
Poetry | 2014 Mary Szybist is the author of two collections of poems, Granted (Alice James Books, 2003), a finalist for the ...
Craig Teicher
Poetry | 2015 Craig Morgan Teicher is the author of Brenda Is In The Room And Other Poems (Center for Literary Publishing, 2007) ...
Jonathan Thirkield
Poetry | 2012 Jonathan Thirkield is the author of The Waker's Corridor, winner of the 2008 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy ...