V. V. Ganeshananthan (she/her) is the author of the novels Brotherless Night (winner of the 2024 Women's Prize for Fiction and the 2024 Carol Shields Prize, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and an NPR Book of the Year) and Love Marriage (longlisted for the Women's Prize and named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post). Her work has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading, among other publications.

A former vice president of the South...

Poet, translator, and essayist Hai-Dang Phan is the author of the poetry collection Reenactments (Sarabande, 2019) and the translator of Phan Nhiên Hạo’s selected volume of poems, Paper Bells (The Song Cave, 2020). Phan has taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is currently an Associate Professor of English at Grinnell College.

Jake Fournier will read from his new poetry collection, Punishment Bag. Described as "In conversation with collections like John Ashbery's Some Trees and Wallace Stevens's Harmonium," Punishment Bag is "a daring poetry debut that carves its own unsettling territory" (simonandschuster.com). D.A. Powell, author of Low Hanging Fruit, praises Punishment Bag as "a book marvelously held together by the attempt to see what can often only be felt," while Cody-Rose Clevidence, author of Aux/Arc Trypt Ich...

Jack Saebyok Jung is a poet, translator, and educator whose creative practice navigates the intersections of literature, technology, and identity. Known for his translations of Korean poetry, notably the cutting-edge works of Yi Sang, Jack explores how language moves between cultures, capturing nuance and existential depth through rhythmical precision.

Jung once planned on drawing vampire hunters and mech pilots — but then he stumbled into poetry and never left. A Truman Capote Fellow at the Iowa...