Writers’ Workshop graduate Julie Orringer will read from her new novel, The Flight Portfolio, based on the true story of Vivian Fry’s attempt to save the work, and lives, of Jewish artists fleeing the Holocaust. “Magnificent… Unforgettable . . . Brilliantly conceived, impeccably crafted, and showcasing Orringer’s extraordinary gifts, this is destined to become a classic.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) Julie Orringer is the author of the novel The Invisible Bridge and the award-winning...

The Department of Spanish & Portuguese proudly presents the Spanish Creative Writing MFA Graduation Reading. José Covo, Elisa Ferrer Molina, Inés Gallo de Urioste, Natalia Hernández, Mariana Mazer and Angela Pico Pinto will share work from their theses. This event will be entirely in Spanish. Reception to follow in Prairie Lights Cafe. Please join us!

Leslie Carol Roberts will read from her new essay collection, Here is Where I Walk: Episodes From a Life in the Forest. “A series of absorbing, funny, tragic, and deeply present ruminations…Packed with a scientist’s curiosity and an artist’s imagination, she uses her walks the way Thoreau encouraged us to treat every journey into nature: as a lesson in how to accept, relish, and even seek out change.”—John D’Agata Leslie Carol Roberts is also the author of The Entire Earth and Sky: Views on...

Iowa City poets Chad Abushanab and Kam Hilliard will read from their recent poetry collections. Chad Abushanab is the author of The Last Visit, winner of the 2018 Donald Justice Poetry Prize. Jericho Brown praised “the speaker’s search for self and struggles with drink after surviving a childhood laden with domestic violence… I really do believe in this book and find it extraordinary as an early twenty-first century debut. ” Abushanab’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Believer, Be...