Thelma Trujillo, PhD candidate in English, researches premodern critical race studies and medieval hagiography; writer and educator from La Villita, Chicago.

Tobias Veeder is a visiting assistant professor teaching "ENGL-1200 The Interpretation of Literature: Diverse Voices in Classic and Contemporary Texts."

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.

Katherine Weiner provides administrative support for the Nonfiction Writing Program.

Deborah Whaley is a professor emerita at the University of Iowa.

Ellie White, PhD student at University of Iowa, studies Victorian literature and transnational coming-of-age novels; former ESL teacher in Vienna with Fulbright Austria.

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

Nicole Wilder-Gutierrez is an MFA student in the Nonfiction Writing Program.

Teddy Wimer is a graduate student in the Nonfiction Writing Program.

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

David Wittenberg is a professor emeritus.

Bob Woerner is a professor emeritus at the University of Iowa.

Cutter Wood the recipient of a 2018 Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a former Visiting Scholar at the University of Louisville.

Fred Woodard is a professor emeritus at the University of Iowa.

Learn more about Alicia Wright, Managing Editor for the Iowa Review at the University of Iowa.

Award-winning author Larry Ypil explores voice, memory, and place through essays; Yale Writer-in-Residence, NWP alum, Palanca and Madrigal Gonzales Prize winner.

April Zhu, MFA Candidate at the University of Iowa, is a writer based in Nairobi, Kenya.