Tom Drury is the author of Pacific, The End of Vandalism, Hunts in Dreams, The Driftless Area, and The Black Brook. His novels have been translated into Spanish, German, and French. His essays and short fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Harper’s, Granta, The New York Times Magazine, the Mississippi Review, and Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. In 2000-2001 he was a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.

Bennett Sims is the author of the novel A...

Writers' Workshop graduate Stephen Kuusisto will read from his third poetry collection, Close Escapes, and will be in conversation with Iowa International Writing Program director Christopher Merrill. Described by publisher Copper Canyon Press as "[moving] through a river of memory," Close Escapes drifts through "time and place—Tallinn, New York, a Velamo monastery—[and] our anchor is the poet, navigating a sightless world with intelligence and dark humor" (coppercanyonpress.org). Praised by...

Please join us for our annual IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series! This week’s event features IWP Residents Grigor Shashikyan (Armenia) andRoxana Crisólogo (Peru/Finland). They will be accompanied by Iowa Writers' Workshop Poetry student Warren Longmire.

Grigor Shashikyan Գրիգոր Շաշիկյան (pen name Grig) Գրիգ (fiction writer, literary critic; Armenia) is the author of three books, two of which — Հիսուսի կատուն [Jesus' Cat] (2015) and Friedensdorf [Peace Village] (2023) — have been bestselling...