The Writers' Workshop presents a fiction reading by Ida Beam Visiting Professor, Viet Thanh Nguyen. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer is a New York Times best seller and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Other honors include the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction from the American Library Association, the First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction, a Gold Medal in...

The Japan Foundation and the University of Iowa Japanese Program will present a three-day event (April 15-17) with Japanese artist and Iowa Writers' Workshop alumna Fuyuko Tomita. Fuyuko Tomita, a student in the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1967-68, will visit campus to discuss her experiences during what was the first year of the International Writing Program. An accomplished haiku poet who has published her poetry in some of Japan's leading newspapers, Ms. Tomita will teach a haiku workshop and...

The Japan Foundation and the University of Iowa Japanese Program will present a three-day event (April 15-17) with Japanese artist and Iowa Writers' Workshop alumna Fuyuko Tomita. Fuyuko Tomita, a student in the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1967-68, will visit campus to discuss her experiences during what was the first year of the International Writing Program. An accomplished haiku poet who has published her poetry in some of Japan's leading newspapers, Ms. Tomita will teach a haiku workshop and...

The Japan Foundation and the University of Iowa Japanese Program will present a three-day event (April 15-17) with Japanese artist and Iowa Writers' Workshop alumna Fuyuko Tomita. Fuyuko Tomita, a student in the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1967-68, will visit campus to discuss her experiences during what was the first year of the International Writing Program. An accomplished haiku poet who has published her poetry in some of Japan's leading newspapers, Ms. Tomita will teach a haiku workshop and...