Please join us for a reading and conversation with former Iowa Citians Patricia Bryan and Tom Wolf in celebration of the release of their book The Plea: The True Story of Young Wesley Elkins and His Struggle for Redemption (University of Iowa Press, 2022).

Patricia Bryan is a graduate of Carleton College and the University of Iowa College of Law. She has a Masters in Tax degree from NYU. Patricia practiced law in New York City for six years before accepting a position as a professor of law at...

The Writers' Workshop presents a reading with Arthur Sze.

From https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/arthur-sze:

Arthur Sze is a poet, a translator, and an editor. He is the author of 11 books of poetry, including The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2021); Sight Lines (2019), which won the National Book Award for Poetry; Compass Rose (2014), a Pulitzer Prize finalist; The Ginkgo Light (2009), selected for the PEN Southwest Book Award and the Mountains &...

Please join us for a reading and conversation with Jamil Jan Kochai in celebration of the release of his book The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories (Viking, 2022).

Jamil Jan Kochai is the author of 99 Nights in Logar, a finalist for the Pen/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. He was born in an Afghan refugee camp in Peshawar, Pakistan, but he originally hails from Logar, Afghanistan. His short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshare...

The Writers' Workshop presents a reading with Simone White.

Simone White is the author of the full-length collections House Envy of All the World (2010), and or, on being the other woman (2022), as well as the chapbooks Dolly (2008) and Unrest (2013). Her work has been praised for its innovative complexity, allusive song, and “lyric deconstruction of desire, entitlement, blackness, the domestic, language and diction,” in the words of Anna Moschovakis. White has received fellowships from Cave...