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Stephen Lovely
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Director, Iowa Young Writers' Studio
Stephen Lovely has been the Director of the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio since 2005. He has led over 30 sessions of the program and hosted more than 2000 students. Stephen attended Kenyon College, where he majored in English, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he studied with Deborah Eisenberg, Margot Livesey, Ethan Canin, and Frank Conroy. His first novel, Irreplaceable, was published by Hyperion/Voice in 2009 and translated into German, Dutch, and Chinese. Irreplaceable received the Dana Award for the Novel and a James Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award. Stephen currently lives in Iowa City with his wife and several dogs and cats. He is working on a second novel.
Program Staff
Teachers and counselors at the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio are chosen, with rare exceptions, from among the students and graduates of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. The Iowa Writers’ Workshop, founded in 1936, was the first graduate creative writing program in the United States and is still regarded as one of the finest. The Iowa Writers’ Workshop typically accepts 25 fiction writers and 25 poets every year from an application pool of over 1,500. Teachers and counselors for the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio are thus by default not only extraordinarily accomplished writers in the early stages of their careers, but have had the opportunity to acquire extensive teaching experience while studying at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, in many cases teaching creative writing to undergraduates. It is for their teaching experience, enthusiasm, and expertise that we hire them to work at the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio. In short, the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio offers young, passionate, high school-age creative writers the opportunity to study with some of the finest writers and teachers in the country.
Adeniyi Ademoroti
Adeniyi Ademoroti is a fiction writer from Lagos, Nigeria. He’s an MFA candidate at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and his work has appeared in The Southern Review, AGNI and Hobart.
Adams Adeosun
Adams Adeosun (he/they) is a writer and MFA candidate at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Their work has been published in magazines and anthologies including Catapult, Litro UK, Transition, The Offing, Limbe to Lagos: Nonfiction from Cameroon and Nigeria. Their debut poetry chapbook, If the Golden Hour Won't Come For Us, is forthcoming in Akashic Books' New-Generation African Poets box set in 2024.
Kevin Allardice
Kevin Allardice is the author of the novel Any Resemblance to Actual Persons, published by Counterpoint Press in 2013, and Family Genus Species (Outpost, May, 2017). He earned his MFA at The University of Virginia. His fiction has appeared in The Santa Monica Review, The Florida Review, The North American Review, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere; it has also won the Donald Barthelme Prize, twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and been long-listed for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. As of August 2023 he will be living in Iowa City.
Ren Arcamone
Ren Arcamone is a writer from Sydney, Australia. She’s a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop. Her work is published or forthcoming in Gulf Coast and HEAT. She lives in Iowa City, where she writes about ghosts, monsters, cyborgs, sentient plant life, distant galaxies, and queer ladies with big feelings. Currently, she’s at work on a short story collection and a novel.
Joshua Balicki
Joshua Balicki is a descendant of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin. He received an MFA in poetry from the Michener Center for Writers and is currently pursuing an MFA in fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He's taught for the Iowa First Nations Program, Iowa Young Writers' Studio, Austin Bat Cave, and Austin Library Foundation. He’s from Waukesha, Wisconsin.
Micah Bateman
Micah Bateman is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a contributing editor of River Styx. Winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Lyric Poetry Award, he has published poems and essays in Boston Review, Iowa Review, Poet Lore, Verse, and elsewhere. He is an assistant professor at the University of Iowa.
Julia Bohm
Julia Bohm is a writer from Ann Arbor, Michigan. She's an MFA candidate in fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her work can be found in Salt Hill Journal, The Adroit Journal, and in The
Hannah Bonner
Hannah Bonner is a writer, film programmer, and educator. She is a 2023-2024 National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critics Fellow, the Poetry Editor for Brink, and a CLAS Postgraduate Visiting Writer in Creative Nonfiction at the University of Iowa. Her first collection of poems, Another Woman, will be published in August from EastOver Press. She received her MA in Film Studies, as well as her MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Iowa.
Ellen Boyette
Ellen Boyette received her MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was an Alberta Kelley Fellow and Teaching-Writing Fellow. Her first book of poems, BEDIEVAL, was a finalist for the Slope Editions 2019 Book Prize judged by Solmaz Sharif as well as the CSU 2021 Lighthouse Series Book Prize judged by Shane McCrae. Her work can be found at jubilat, Prelude, poets.org, The Columbia Review, Bennington Review, and elsewhere. She is originally from Asheville, NC, where she enjoys hiking, live music, and playing with her two cats.
Christine Byrne
Christine Byrne is an MFA candidate in poetry at The Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she won the John Logan Poetry Prize and was selected to read for the Mission Creek Festival Literary Walk. Prior to the workshop, she studied English at the University of Connecticut. In her time there, she toured in the Connecticut Poetry Circuit and received a Wallace Stevens Poetry Prize. Christine was previously the AV editor for Another Chicago Magazine and is currently a poetry reader for the Iowa Review. In addition to writing, Christine is a painter and ceramist. Her most recent poetry appears or is forthcoming in Pacifica, Barnstorm, the New England Review, and elsewhere
Nora Claire Miller
Nora Claire Miller is a poet and multidisciplinary artist and the author of the chapbook LULL (2020). Nora’s poems can be found Bennington Review, Hobart, Prelude, Tagvverk, and other places. Recently, Nora’s poem “In the Far Present” was selected by Douglas Kearney as runner-up for the 2021 Quarterly West Poetry Contest. In 2020, Nora was the winner of a Bat City Review Editor’s Prize. Nora is currently based in Western Massachusetts, where they serve as editor-in-chief of Ghost Proposal, a chapbook press and journal. In their spare time, Nora enjoys listening for owls in the woods, hanging out with their cat Ramona, repairing vintage lava lamps, and deep-frying poems. Nora holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a BA from Hampshire College.
Drue Denmon
Drue Denmon is a writer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop where she has been working on a novel about young classical musicians in Pittsburgh. She loves her really exhausting and complex coffee making routine and taking pictures of the same sunset every day.
Scott Ditzler
Scott Ditzler is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was a Capote Fellow and a Teaching Writing Fellow. His fiction has appeared in Crazyhorse, December, and Puerto del Sol. His articles and reviews have appeared in The Kansas City Star. Scott currently lives and teaches in Iowa City, where he is working on a novel about working on a novel. When he isn’t busy worrying about writing, he enjoys distance running and organic gardening.
Adrian Enzastiga
Oh, hi! I didn’t see you there. My name is Adrian Antonio Enzastiga, and I am a playwright, poet, screenwriter from Omaha, Nebraska. I am absolutely thrilled to be a part of the IYWS team this year! I attended the camp in 2018 studying fiction and poetry, and it was a crucial step in developing the artist I am today. I then received my BA in Creative Writing at The University of Iowa, where I expanded my scope of study into theater, cinema, and screenwriting. However, after taking a playwriting class, I realized I have been a theater kid my whole life, and playwriting was my true calling. And now, I am part of the 2026 class of Iowa MFA Playwrights. I see my plays as sort of jukebox musicals of poetry. I write individual poems, then stitch them together into one semi-coherent story. I am excited to help fellow writers find their voices this summer! I also love to teach––I have taught middle-school playwriting workshops, and Theater History and Rhetoric at The University of Iowa. On the creative side, I write comedic magical realism plays about identity, grief, and cycles of systematic oppression. I believe Theater is a source of joy, community, and new ideas. I am inspired by fellow artists Tennessee Williams, Luis Valdez, and Jinkx Monsoon. My hobbies include: Pokemon Go, Dungeons & Dragons, Lego-building, and taking naps with my cat Annie.
Eirill Falck
Eirill Falck is a writer, translator, and editor. Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Poetry Magazine, and Michigan Quarterly Review. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, where she was subsequently a Zell Fellow. She was a 2020-2022 Iowa Arts Fellow at the University of Iowa, where she completed an MFA in Literary Translation. While at the University of Iowa, she received the Stanley Award for International Research, for her work on translations of Edvard Munch’s journals. She is the recipient of the John Wagner Prize and the Hopwood Award, and has received support from The Elizabeth Kostova Foundation and The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Eirill is the co-founder of MQR: Mixtape, an imprint of Michigan Quarterly Review. She is represented by The Wylie Agency.
Zkara Gaillard
Zkara Gaillard (they/them) was raised in Schenectady, NY and has roots in South Carolina. They received their MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a graduate certificate in African American Studies. Currently, they serve as the Managing Editor of the University of Iowa’s Prison Writing Project. Their short fiction has been published in Transition Magazine, which went on to be awarded the 2024 PEN/Dau Short Story Prize. They write about Black life, Black family, and the reverberations of trauma through generations.
Jorge Guerra
Jorge Guerra is a Lecturer in Latina/o/x Studies and the Magid Center for Writing at the University of Iowa. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Jorge Guerra received his B.A. in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing at California State University/Long Beach. He is also a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was a Dean's Graduate Research Fellow.
His research includes the Guatemalan Coup D'état of 1954, US-Cold War involvement in Guatemala/Latin America, the disappearances of Guatemalans during the Guatemalan Civil War, and Central American immigration in the United States. He finished his short story collection and is currently working on a novel on the outset of the Guatemalan Civil War.
At U Iowa, he has taught courses on queer Latina/o/x studies, Latina/o/x film, and Latinx immigration literature.
He is an active member of the UI Latinx Council, serves as a mentor for the Storm Lake Scholars Program, and teaches the section of LATS:2280 Introduction to Latina/o/x Studies which is required for members of the Unidos Living Learning Community.
Logan Hoffman-Smith
Logan Hoffman-Smith is a queer trans Chinese American Adoptee located in Iowa City. They are an MFA candidate in fiction at the University of Iowa and a Kundiman Fiction Fellow. In their free time, they enjoy bouldering, roller skating, researching the habits of ocean creatures, and picking up unknown neighborhood cats.
Aaron Hwang
Aaron Hwang is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He also graduated Yale with a Writing Concentration, but doesn’t really like to talk about it. He has never been a dragon or dipped his hand into the emptiness beyond the rim of the universe. He is perpetually losing things, and forgetting things, and running late. He turned this bio in late. He is not and has never been fancy. Please do not bully him.
Zachary Isom
Zachary Isom is a writer, wine salesman, and neerdowell from Iowa City, Iowa. He hosts a radical reading series called Reanimator with his co-conspirator Taylor Dawson. His work has been previously published in River Styx and SOLID STATE.
Gilad Jaffe
Originally from NYC, Gilad Jaffe received an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He holds a BA in Written Arts from Bard College where he was awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize, and has served on staff with the John Cage Trust and AmeriCorps at the Providence Children's Museum. His recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bennington Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, The Iowa Review, The Missouri Review, TriQuarterly, and The Yale Review, among others. He is currently an Assistant Editor at Conjunctions.
Gwyneth Kelly
Gwyneth Kelly is a writer from Silver Spring, Maryland. She studied at Northwestern University and University College London before getting her MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop; she was also a 2020 University of Iowa Writers’ Room Fellow for television writing. Her work, which has appeared in the Barcelona Review, The Washington Post, The American Scholar, and The New Republic, features lots of weird history, sisters, ghosts, and outlaws, and she is a proud member of the Writers Guild of America.
Devanshi Khetarpal
Devanshi Khetarpal is a Truman Capote and Sonny Mehta Fellow in Fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Inklette Magazine, and served as a Poetry Reader for The Iowa Review. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Pleiades, Indiana Review, The Masters Review, Suspect, Public Books, Poetry at Sangam, and The Bombay Literary Magazine, among others. Khetarpal received an Honorable Mention for the 2024 Prufer Poetry Prize, and was longlisted for the 2023 Toto Awards for Creative Writing in English. Her work has received support from the Juniper Writing Institute at UMass Amherst, Bread Loaf Translators' Conference, and the Yale Writers' Workshop. Devanshi holds a Master's in Comparative Literature from New York University, where she specialized in Italian Studies. Her poetry collection, Small Talk, was published by Writers Workshop India, Kolkata, in 2019. She is from Bhopal, India. Website: www.devanshikhetarpal.com.
Juliana Lamy
Juliana Lamy is a Haitian fiction writer from South Florida. She received her Bachelor’s degree in History & Literature from Harvard University. While there, she was also the recipient of the university’s Le Baron Russell Brigg’s Prize for Undergraduate Fiction, as well as the Gordon Parks Essay Prize for Nonfiction. She is the author of You Were Watching from the Sand (Red Hen Press, 2023). She is currently a fiction candidate at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She really is 6”2, she swears.
Sara Luzuriaga
Sara Luzuriaga (she/they) is a British-Ecuadorian fiction writer raised in Philadelphia and an MFA candidate iin fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She graduated from Yale with a degree in Comparative Literature and has lived in London and Lyon, France. Their writing appears in The Sun, Off Assignment, and Soft Punk Magazine, among others; she was a Fiction Fellow at the New York State Summer Writers’ Institute. In their free time, they love to dance, run, and go to the movies.
Anna Magavern
Anna Magavern is a literary translator from the French. She holds an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa, where she is currently a Master’s candidate in French and Francophone World Studies. She is the translator of J.J. Zana’s poetry collection Script (2024), and a former editor of Exchanges Journal of Literary Translation.
Benjamin Mason
Benjamin Mason is an Australian nomad whose most recent home was Fremantle (Walyalup), on Noongar Boodjar, Western Australia. Previously he has been a furniture removalist, a factory worker, a cleaner, a bartender, a high school teacher, hitchhiker, a slam poet, and a shanty singer with The Anchormen. He currently lives in Iowa City, where he is a second year fiction candidate in the Iowa Writers Workshop and teaches in Creative Writing.
Mike Meginnis
Mike Meginnis is the author of the novels Drowning Practice (2022, Ecco) and Fat Man and Little Boy (2014, Black Balloon), as well as the short story "Navigators," which appeared in Best American Short Stories 2012.
Mathilde Merouani
Mathilde Merouani is completing an MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her work has appeared in Joyland, The Rumpus, The Common, Fugue, 3:AM Magazine, and Minor Literature[s]. Yes, she does have a French accent.
Nina Morrison
Nina Morrison is a playwright, screenwriter, director and teaching artist. She has presented work in New York City at Dixon Place, Fordham University, the HOT! Festival of Queer Performance, the NY International Fringe Festival, and the Little Theatre series, among others. Nina is working with Sita Girl Productions as a writer’s assistant and story consultant. Her play Féminaal was produced by the Grumble Theater in the Twin Cities. Nina was the Provost’s Postgraduate Visiting Writer in Playwriting 2019-2020 at the University of Iowa. She was also the recipient of an artist’s residency at Dixon Place and a WORKSPACE writer’s residency at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. In addition to teaching at the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio, she teaches playwriting at Chicago Dramatists, she is a lecturer in the University of Iowa’s Link Program and a creative writing instructor for the Belin-Blank Honors Center Summer Writing Residency. MFA Directing, MFA Playwrights Workshop from the University of Iowa. www.ninamorrison.com
Regina Napolitano
Regina Napolitano is a poet and teacher from Oakland, CA. She is currently an M.F.A. candidate in poetry at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She was a high school English teacher at Oakland School of the Arts for four years. Her poetry has appeared in Hot Pink Magazine and elsewhere. She is learning Italian and likes to bake.
Cindy Juyoung Ok
Cindy Juyoung Ok, a former public high school teacher, is currently a creative writing lecturer at UC San Diego and an assistant editor at Guernica Magazine. Cindy’s writing has been supported by fellowships from organizations like Hambidge Center, Banff Centre, and VONA, and published in journals including The Yale Review, Black Warrior Review, and Poetry, with a chapbook, House Work, forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse.
Amy Parker
Amy Parker received her MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Meta-Rosenburg Fellow and a Teaching Writing Fellow. She has been awarded grants from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the Marble House Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Clarion Foundation for her work in fiction. Her debut collection Beasts and Children was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2016, and she is currently at work on a novel. She has taught fiction and creative writing at the University of Iowa and Wichita State University.
Jarek Pastor
Jarek Pastor is a theatremaker with a focus on play composition, dramaturgy, and directing.
Their work operates on symbolic reasoning to enact absurdist portraits of social systems from a mixed race/bilingual/transnational perspective in the spirit of the clown and duende. Their work
manifests a theatre of being more than the expected doing— of presence and acquaintance more than deed and explanation. As an instructor, Jarek seeks to nurture a feeling of playful yet focused curiosity in service to the expansion of comprehension and its invigorating effects on the individual and community. Jarek holds an MFA from the University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop and a BA in Playwriting from Columbia College Chicago.
Yen Pham
Yen Pham is a writer, journalist and MFA candidate in fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She attended Harvard University and Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship. Her work has appeared in The Nation, the New York Times Book Review, The London Review of Books, n+1, Bookforum, and ArtReview.
Hannah Piette
Hannah Piette is a poet who lives and teaches in Iowa City. She received her MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and she is currently the CLAS Visiting Writer in Poetry at the University of Iowa. Her poems have appeared in Chicago Review, Guesthouse, and Paperbark Magazine.
Anna Polonyi
Anna Polonyi is a trilingual writer who usually gets her proverbs wrong and reads books about punctuation for fun. A fiction graduate from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she is at work on a novel about a mythical creature called the Beast of the Gévaudan. When not in Iowa, you can find her in Nantes, France, rowing with an 8-person crew or learning how to identify clouds.
Nitya Rayapati
Nitya Rayapati is a fiction writer and translator from Austin. She is currently an MFA candidate at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has been a Periplus fellow and her work has appeared in Electric Literature, PANK, and Gulf Coast. She loves biking, going on long walks, and deep frying things.
Valentina Ríos Romero
Valentina Ríos Romero is a writer from Mexico City. They are currently pursuing an MFA in fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. At the heart of their writing are perspectives of queerness as defined by its potentiality. Valentina’s writing is informed by their previous work in the museum industry at institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Oxford Modern and the Shelburne Museum.
Rasheeda Saka
Rasheeda Saka is a Nigerian American writer, and her short stories have appeared in Joyland Magazine, Triquarterly, and Epiphany Magazine. A graduate of Princeton University, she was Literary Hub’s 2020 fall-winter editorial fellow and the assistant editor of Alta Journal’s California Book Club, for which she was awarded a 2021 Eddie & Ozzie Award for Best Newsletter. She loves biking, drinking chai lattes, and eating fried plantains (not at the same time!). Her favorite writers include Edward P. Jones, Namwali Serpell, Yiyun Li, and Ottessa Moshfegh.
Erin Sherry
Erin Sherry is a fiction writer from the post-apocalyptic part of Pennsylvania where the movie adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road was filmed. Prior to joining the Iowa Writers' Workshop as an Iowa Arts Fellow in fiction, Erin served as a publishing specialist for 826 Boston, a nonprofit youth writing organization. She holds a BFA in fiction writing from Emerson College and is currently at work on a collection of stories about, among other cosmic concerns, a woman with a black hole in her belly, a ghost baby on the moon, fathers who bottle stars and daughters who eat them. Her stories have appeared in the Adroit Journal, Groupie Mag, and the Emerson Review.
Glen Waters
Glen Waters is a writer born in Dallas, Texas. He graduated from the Writer's Workshop in Spring 2023 and has lived in Iowa City since then, completing side quests. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Iowa, teaching courses in Creative Writing focused on music writing, hip-hop, and health professional writing. Over the years Glen has worked as a freelance writer, barista, and chef. Currently he runs a local catering business, so he’s one of the worst people to talk to about food recommendations in Iowa City! Outside of this, Glen makes music, plays video games, and plays basketball in his non-existent downtime. His poetry can be found in Howard University's The Amistad, Poetry South, and Stephen F. Austin's Journal of Multicultural Affairs.
Danielle Wheeler
Danielle Wheeler was the 2010-2011 Rona Jaffe fellow in poetry at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She currently lives in Iowa City, Iowa, where she teaches writing and literature, manages the online course offerings for the Magid Center for Writing, and serves as the poetry editor for River Styx literary journal. She and her work can be found online at daniwheeler.com.
Harris Wheless
Harris Wheless is a writer from North Carolina and an MFA candidate in the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program. His work has appeared in the Oxford American, NPR, Bright Wall/Dark Room, River Styx, and elsewhere. He can be found online at harriswheless.com.
Connor White
Connor White is from Long Island, New York and is a 2017 graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has taught creative writing at the University of Iowa and at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He graduated with a BFA in Film and Television from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and worked for several years as a film director, producer and editor before coming to Iowa City.
Wyatt Williams
Wyatt Williams is the author of Springer Mountain: Meditations on Killing and Eating (UNC Press, 2021) and his essays been published by The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Believer, Oxford American, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Paris Review, and others. Prior to his teaching career, he worked at a newspaper as a restaurant critic, in a cat furniture factory building scratching posts, and in restaurants and bars washing dishes and waiting tables. His work has been supported by awards, fellowships, and residencies from MacDowell, Hambidge Center, the James Beard Foundation, and anthologized in The Best American Food Writing.
Joel Worford
Joel Worford is a writer and musician from Richmond, Virginia. His work appears in TriQuarterly, Hayden's Ferry Review, Laurel Review, Chestnut Review and other places. His short story "The Word" was named a distinguished story in Best American Short Stories 2023, and his story "No Clubs" appears in Best Small Fictions 2024. When he's not absolutely killing it, Joel likes to take long walks by the Iowa River while listening to Jeff Buckley. Sometimes it's D'Angelo, sometimes it's Stevie Wonder. Joel also loves tennis, and chess, though he's no Beth Harmon. You can pretty much always talk to him about Game of Thrones, Toni Morrison, 2000s pop music, tennis, language as an instrument, and hot wings. He'll graduate from the Iowa Writers' Workshop this spring :)
Jeffrey Xiong
Jeffrey Xiong (he/they) is a writer from the San Gabriel Valley. He currently studies fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he is a reader for the Iowa Review, and a joint winner of the Richard Yates Short Story Contest. Before Iowa, they worked as a software engineer, and studied computer science and cognitive science at Rice University. He was a 2022 Kearny Street Workshop IWL Fellow, and a graduate of the Tin House Summer Workshop. Their fiction often experiments with genre, structure, and point of view, and can be found in Passages North, Nimrod, HAD, and the Micro Podcast. They enjoy contemporary art, photography, and watching other people play video games. They know too much about PDFs and too little about everything else.
Former Staff
Writers who have taught or counseled at the Iowa Young Writers' Studio since its founding in 2000 include Daniel Alarcón, Alexia Arthurs, Andy Axel, Katherine Bell, Amy Bernhard, Catherine Blauvelt, Shane Book, Sarah Braunstein, Marion Bright, Jamel Brinkley, Thea Brown, Suzanne Buffam, Austin Bunn, David Busis, Amy Butcher, Scott Butterfield, Greta Byrum, Abdeel Cardoso, Abigail Carney, Marjorie Celona, Daniel Cesca, Ashley Clarke, Harriet Clark, Samantha Xiao Cody, Lindsay Coleman, Arda Collins, Ben Doyle, Nick Dybek, Janelle Effiwatt, Jason England, Michelle Falkoff, Dana Fang, Joe Fassler, Sarah Fay, Adam Fell, Indya Finch, David Gorin, Jane Gregory, Jill Haberkern, Ben Hale, Meg Hartmann, Amy Hassinger, Mary Hickman-Fernandez, Jane Huffman, Nate Hoks, Naomi Jackson, Evan James, Micah Ariel James, Leslie Jamison, Rebecca Johns, Nimo Johnson, Riley Johnson, Amanda Kallis, Daniel Khalastchi, Sally Keith, Kristin Kelly, Justin Kramon, Josh Kryah, Kerrie Kvashay-Boyle, Nam Le, Anna Lewis, Jason Lewis, Jane Lewty, Jack Livings, Claire Lombardo, James Longley, Carmen Maria Machado, Samantha Macpherson, Alex Madison, Dora Malech, Steve Marlowe, Anthony Marra, Peyton Marshall, Aaron McCollough, Madeline McDonnell, Sara McGuirk, Elyse Mele, Nancy Mendoza, Andrew Milward, Fatima Mirza, Kevin Moffett, Melissa Mogollon, Paula Morris, Anna Morrison, Becca Myers, Andrew Nance, Carl Napolitano, Thisbe Nissen, Derek Nnuro, Karen Parkman, Emily Pettit, Daniel Poppick, Margaret Reges, Alex Ruskell, Lewis Robinson, Dan Rosenberg, Margaret Ross, Anjali Sachdeva, Sanjena Sathian, Christian Schlegel, Lauren Shapiro, Vivian Shotwell, Nina Siegal, Lucy Silag, Delilah Silberman, Jenee Skinner, Will Smiley, Jared Stanley, Kate Sullivan, Michelle Taransky, Tim Taranto, Catherine Theis, Vu Tran, Ryan Tucker, Justin Tussing, Christine Utz, Kelsi Vanada, Anya Ventura, Cara Wall, Keenan Walsh, Patricia Walsh, Malena Watrous, Elizabeth Weiss, Lisa Wells, Monica West, Julia Whicker, Vinnie Wilhelm, Antoine Wilson, De'Shawn Winslow, Rachel Yoder, Ada Zhang, C. Pam Zhang and Jenny Zhang.