People
Marie Kruger
Title/Position
Associate Professor
Marie Kruger researches African literature, gender, and visual culture, focusing on South African activism, post-apartheid film, and museum studies in Johannesburg.
Aviya Kushner
Title/Position
Nonfiction Writing Program Alumni
Aviya Kushner, author of The Grammar of God, directs the MFA Program at Columbia College Chicago. Her essays appear in The Gettysburg Review and Poets & Writers.
Cherrie Kwok
Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Cherrie Kwok is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Iowa.
Brooks Landon
Title/Position
Professor
Brooks Landon is a professor emeritus at the University of Iowa.
Kathy Lavezzo
Title/Position
Professor
Kathy Lavezzo teaches medieval literature and researches English identity, antisemitism, and the medieval-modern divide, with work spanning Chaucer to Stuart Hall.
Amy Leach
Title/Position
Nonfiction Writing Program Alum
Amy Leach, author of The Salt of the Universe and Things That Are, has received a Pushcart Prize and Whiting Writers Award for her nature essays.
Paige Lewis
Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Paige Lewis, author of Space Struck, co-edits Last Call and teaches at Iowa. They co-created Ours Poetica, making poetry accessible to students.
Yiyun Li
Yiyun Li, author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, teaches creative writing at Princeton and is a MacArthur Fellow with multiple prestigious literary awards.
Tom Lin
Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Tom Lin, author of The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu, won the 2022 Carnegie Medal. His research explores science fiction, technology, and nuclear tourism.
Ariana Luna
Title/Position
Undergraduate Ambassador
Learn more about Ariana Luna, Undergraduate Ambassador in the English department at the University of Iowa.
Tianyu (Matt) Ma
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
Learn more about Tianyu (Matt) Ma, Graduate student at the University of Iowa.
Teresa Mangum
Title/Position
Professor
Teresa Mangum is a professor emerita at the University of Iowa.
Lucas Mann
Title/Position
Nonfiction Writing Program Alum
Lucas Mann, author of Attachments and Lord Fear, has received prestigious fellowships and teaches at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.
Pedro Martinez
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
Learn more about Pedro Martinez, Graduate student at the University of Iowa.
Maddie Matsubara
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Student
Learn more about Maddie Matsubara, Graduate student at the University of Iowa.
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