Iowa Writers' Workshop alum and current Iowa Summer Writing Festival instructor Kelly Dwyer will read from her newest novel, Ghost Mother. Compared to stories written by Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, and Henry James, Ghost Mother follows a protagonist named Lilly who's wanting but struggling to have a baby with her husband Jack when they buy an old house that appears to be haunted...or is it? Kate Christensen, PEN/Faulkner award-winning author of The Great Man and Welcome Home, Stranger...

Poet and philosopher John Koethe will read from his newest book, Cemeteries and Galaxies, a collection of poems that "unravels timeless questions of death, math, meaning, and much more" (macmillan.com), and Iowa Writers' Workshop alum Julie Hanson will read from her recent poetry collection, The Audible and the Evident, winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. Heather Treseler of the LA Review of Books praises Cemeteries and Galaxies as a new collection that "looks upward at the most distant...

Iowa Writers' Workshop alum Abby Geni will read from her newest short story collection, The Body Farm. Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch of The Chicago Review of Books calls The Body Farm "a gripping collection of stories that take an empathetic and unflinching look at the horrors and joys of inhabiting our bodies" and goes on to praise it as "stories [that] help us relate with her characters, our own bodies, and the natural world that surrounds us outside her lyrical pages" (chireviewofbooks.com)...

Workshop Director, Lan Samantha Chang and Visiting Fiction Professor Tom Drury will read in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at Glenn Schaeffer Library/Dey House at 7 p.m.

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...