Learn more about Kaden St. Onge, Graduate student at the University of Iowa.

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

Learn more about Rachel Poppen, Graduate student at the University of Iowa.

Horace Porter is a professor emeritus at the University of Iowa.

Jeff Porter is a professor emeritus at the University of Iowa.

John Raeburn is a professor emeritus at the University of Iowa.

Khaled Rajeh, PhD student and literary translator from Lebanon, researches translation, postcolonialism, resistance, and Arabic/Palestinian literature; work published in ArabLit and MQR.

Learn more about Nikka Randhawa, graduate student at the University of Iowa.

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

Learn more about Kelly Riessen, Accountant at the University of Iowa.

Laura Rigal is a professor emerita at the University of Iowa.

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.

Phillip Round, Researches American literature, Indigenous literacies, and book history; author of Removable Type and expert in Native American studies, discourse, and material culture.

Riley Ryan-Wood is a writer, educator, and interdisciplinary artist from Austin, Texas. She is an MFA candidate at the University of Iowa. Her work has been supported by the Sewanee Writers' Conference, Mission Creek Festival, and the Yale Writers' Workshop and has been published by Electric Literature and BRINK. She is currently working on an essay collection about rodeo, Buffalo Bill, and other such American mythology.

Learn more about Haley Schlueter, Undergraduate Ambassador at the University of Iowa.