T Fleischmann is the author of Time is the Thing a Body Moves Through and Syzygy, Beauty, which was hailed by the Los Angeles Times for “reimagining the essay...a powerful little book that reads like a collection of poems.” T’s work has appeared in Gulf Coast, the Rumpus, Fourth Genre, and elsewhere. The recipient of an Independent Publishers Award, T is now the nonfiction editor for DIAGRAM. They teach creative writing at Columbia College.

“The Nonfiction Writing Program is where I first learned to take the essay seriously as a form and myself seriously as an essayist. While I had already read widely as an undergraduate, it was at Iowa that I first encountered the actual breadth and depth of the essay’s tradition. It’s where I began to develop the voice and explore the interests that continue to drive my writing today. And even now, some years out of the program, I still exchange work with the peers I met while at Iowa, diving more deeply into the questions that we first asked while in class together. For me, it’s a community that is still very much a part of my life.”