Dr. Eric Ensley, Rare Books Curator at Iowa, aids research with rare materials, manuscripts, and early books. Expert in book history and pre-modern culture.

Lauren Haldeman, poet and graphic novelist, is author of Instead of Dying and Calenday. Her poetry comics appear daily on Instagram.

Tom Keegan directs the Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio in The University of Iowa Libraries and teaches in the departments of Rhetoric and English.

Kim Maher, book artist and designer, specializes in pop-up books and letterpress. She coordinates Emerging Voices at the International Writing Program.

Learn more about Derek Nnuro, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa.

Andre Perry, writer and arts leader, is author of Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now and Executive Director of The Englert Theatre in Iowa City.

Kate Torno advises English, Creative Writing, and Museum Studies students at Iowa, supporting academic planning, careers, first-gen success, and undergraduate advocacy.

Natalia Zdaniuk is a writer and a recent graduate from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. While completing her MFA, she worked as fiction editor for The Iowa Review. She will be teaching ENGL3148, a course on literary editing.