Christopher Merrill, poet, nonfiction author, and director of Iowa’s International Writing Program, explores poetry, translation, nonfiction, and cultural diplomacy in over 40 countries.

Dr. Sarah Minor, award-winning author and interdisciplinary artist, teaches creative nonfiction at Iowa. Her research focuses on image-texts, experimental structures, and outsider experience.

Thomas Mira y Lopez, author of The Book of Resting Places, is a translator, editor at DIAGRAM, and founding editor of Territory, focused on maps and literature.

Elena Passarello, winner of the 2015 Whiting Award, teaches creative writing at Oregon State University and is the author of Animals Strike Curious Poses.

William Rhodes, researches medieval and Renaissance literature, focusing on economics, the environment, and agrarian work. He teaches poetry, drama, and sustainability studies.

Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder studies transnational American literature, focusing on African American and Latinx cultures, performance studies, and social movement activism in the 20th-21st centuries.

Bennett Sims is the author of A Questionable Shape and White Dialogues. His fiction has appeared in Tin House, Conjunctions, and A Public Space.

Professor Stecopoulos teaches modern literature and creative writing. His publications include Telling America’s Story to the World and A History of U.S. South Literature.

Inara Verzemnieks, author of Among the Living and the Dead, is a Pushcart Prize winner. Her work explores exile, war, and homecoming through immersive nonfiction storytelling.

Stephen Voyce, author of Poetic Community, explores twentieth-century poetry, digital media, and the history of literary movements, focusing on avant-garde activism and Cold War culture.

Jonathan Wilcox specializes in medieval studies, early English literature, and book studies, with a focus on humor, early Christian thought, and medieval manuscripts.

Doris Witt specializes in post-WWII multiethnic American, transnational, and postcolonial literature, with a focus on food writing, Vietnamese American literature, and cultural studies.