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

Angela Pelster, author of Limber, teaches creative writing at Hamline University. Her work has appeared in Granta, Gettysburg Review, and more.

Jen Percy, author of Demon Camp, is a contributing editor at The New Republic and teaches creative writing at Columbia University. Winner of multiple prestigious awards.

Clinton Crockett Peters, author of Pandora's Garden, teaches Creative Writing at Berry College. His essays have appeared in Orion, Texas Monthly, and Electric Literature.

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 Price, author of Daddy Long Legs and Man Killed by Pheasant, teaches Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska and won the Orion Readers’ Choice Award.

Kristen Radtke, author of Seek You and Imagine Wanting Only This, is the New York editor for The Believer. Her work appears in The New Yorker and Tin House.

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 Nick Randhawa, Gradute 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.

Learn more about Riley Ryan Wood, Graduate student at the University of Iowa.

Learn more about April Schaefer, Administrative Coordinator - NWP at the University of Iowa.