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...

Lan Samantha Chang, Director of the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop and Frances de Pontes Peebles, visiting faculty, will read from their recent work.

Lan Samantha Chang is the author of the award-winning books Hunger and Inheritance, and the novel All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost. Her short stories have been published in The Atlantic and The Best American Short Stories. She is the recipient of Wallace Stegner and Truman Capote fellowships at Stanford University and of fellowships from...

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...