Award-winning author and Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Tony Tulathimutte is the inaugural recipient of the Jack Galef Literary Arts Award. Tulathimutte, who earned an MFA from Iowa in 2012, is a visiting faculty member in residence at the workshop.

To celebrate the inaugural Jack Galef Literary Arts Award, the university will host a ceremony and reading at 4 p.m. Sept. 29, at Hancher Auditorium’s Stanley Café.

The Jack Galef Literary Arts Award is a new literary prize administered by the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop on behalf of the estate of Jack Galef, an alumnus of the workshop. At $150,000, it is one of the largest literary prizes awarded in the United States. The prize will be presented every two years to support a younger writer who has demonstrated great talent or to recognize the work of a more established writer who has been underrecognized. Recipients will be selected by a committee of workshop faculty.

Jack L. Galef II graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1967. He taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and his poems have been published in The New Yorker, Esquire, and The Paris Review.

_{To subscribe to a weekly emailing list of Writers' Workshop events, please fill in the linked form or email iww@uiowa.edu with “Events Mailing List Subscribe” in the subject line.}