![writer Tisa Bryant](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__768_x_768/public/2023-07/Tisa%20Bryant.jpg?h=d719d653&itok=4KfoCHQx)
Tisa Bryant
![John D'Agata](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__768_x_768/public/2023-01/John_DAgata.jpg?h=af5e2ec9&itok=sRR23kz8)
John D'Agata
![Melissa Febos](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2023-01/Melissa_Febos.jpg?h=b999dc0c&itok=bk7Kkcqb)
Melissa Febos
![Brooks Landon](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__768_x_768/public/2023-04/Brooks-Landon.jpg?h=508e323d&itok=EbHeb7N2)
Brooks Landon
![Sarah Minor](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2023-05/Sarah%20Minor.jpeg?h=fa01a09e&itok=4MMtq4qD)
Sarah Minor
![writer Paisley Rekdal](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2023-07/Paisley%20Rekdal.jpeg?h=4d552611&itok=24zKCv0A)
Paisley Rekdal
![Bonnie Sunstein](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2023-04/Bonnie_Sunstein.jpg?h=3533a06e&itok=RZkfntr4)
Bonnie Sunstein
![Inara Verzemnieks](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__768_x_768/public/2023-04/Inara_Verzemnieks.jpg?h=ea136f8a&itok=ocifRQlz)
Inara Verzemnieks
Recent Faculty, Distinguished Professors and Writers
Recent Visiting Writers
Short-term faculty who offer readings, Q&As, and day-long master classes
Diane Ackerman • Faith Adiele • Steve Almond • Jo Ann Beard • Alison Bechdel • Jill Bialosky • Eula Biss • Julene Bair • Joe Blair • Jenny Boully • Blair Braverman • Amy Butcher • Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas • Dura Chew-Bose • Bernard Cooper • Charles D’Ambrosio • Meghan Daum • Tim Denevi • Lena Dunham • Geoff Dyer • Hope Edelman • Gretel Ehrlich • Hali Felt • Thalia Field • Matthew Gavin Frank • Vivian Gornick • Albert Goldbarth • Kenneth Goldsmith • Patricia Hampl • Riley Hanick • Donovan Hohn • Pico Iyer • Leslie Jamison • Margo Jefferson • Jeremy Jones • Heidi Julavits • Carl Klaus • Wayne Koestenbaum • Aviya Kushner • Stephen Kuusisto • Kiese Laymon • David Lazar • Amy Leach • Yiyun Li • Philip Lopate • Greil Marcus • Lucas Mann • Ross McElwee • Jim McKean • John McPhee • June Melby • Ander Monson • Honor Moore • Angela Morales • Maggie Nelson • Dylan Nice • Sigrid Nunez • Jose Orduna • Elena Passarello • Michael Paterniti • Angela Pelster • Jen Percy • Steven Pinker • Richard Preston • John Price • Kristen Radtke • David Rakoff • Francesca Rendell-Short • John Richardson • Mary Roach • Richard Rodriguez • Mary Ruefle • David Sedaris • Jeff Sharlet • David Shields • Michael Silverblatt • Lauren Slater • Rebecca Solnit • Cheryl Strayed • John Jeremiah Sullivan • Catherine Taylor • Louis Alberto Urrea • Sarah Viren • Eliot Weinberger • Joe Wenderoth • Lawrence Weschler • Josh Wheeler • Dorothy Wickendon • John Edgar Wideman • Terry Tempest Williams • Brendan Wolfe • Xu Xi and others
Recent Editorial Visits
Short-term visits by editors offering Q&As, master classes, and manuscript consultations
The Believer • Brick • BuzzFeed • Coffee House Press • Daily Palette • Esquire • Farrar, Straus, & Giroux • Found • GQ • Graywolf Press • Guernica • Harper’s • Hotel Amerika • Little, Brown • New Letters • New York Magazine • Noisy • A Public Space • The Rumpus • Sarabande Books • Seneca Review • Sports Illustrated • Tin House • University of Nebraska Press • University of Iowa Press • Vice • W.W. Norton and others