Bryn Lovitt is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa, from where she holds both a BA in English and Creative Writing and an MFA in Nonfiction Writing.

Teresa Mangum is a professor in GWSS and the Director of the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies. Her research and teaching focus on the ways literature and art, especially in nineteenth-century Britain, shaped readers’ understanding of women, of late life, and of connections between humans and other animals.

Maddison McGann is an English Ph.D. candidate who works on 19th-century British literature, environmental humanities, narrative theory, and the novel. Her other areas of interest include Victorian reviewing and print culture.

Christopher Merrill has published six collections of poetry, including Watch Fire, for which he received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets; many edited volumes and books of translations; and five works of nonfiction, among them, Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars and Things of the Hidden God: Journey to the Holy Mountain.

Dr. Sarah Minor received BUILD Certification through the office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. At Iowa, she teaches graduate courses like “History of the Essay,” “The Krause Essay Prize Seminar,” and “Essay Writing Workshop,” and undergraduate courses like “Honors Seminar in Creative Nonfiction,” “Nonfiction Writing Workshop,” and the special topics course “Writing Across Gender: The Literary Shed.”

Christine Norquest advises undergraduate students in the Departments of English (English and English & Creative Writing) and Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies (Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies and Social Justice).

Lynne Nugent is editor of The Iowa Review. Her essay chapbook, Nest, won the 2019 Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award and was published by The Florida Review in 2020.

Hayley O’Malley is an assistant professor in the Department of Cinematic Arts and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of English at the University of Iowa. Dr. O’Malley’s interdisciplinary research and teaching focus broadly on African American literature, film, and visual culture, with a particular emphasis on Black feminist art and activism since the 1960s.