Abigail Carney, who is from Ohio, shares what she's learned while pursuing her MFA at Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Workshop alumni Yiyun Li (MFA, 2005), Oscar Cásares(MFA, 2001), and Garth Greenwell (MFA, 2015) are among 175 scholars, artists, and scientists awarded fellowships this year from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.