Pia Struzzieri, assistant visiting professor of English, holds an MFA from Columbia and an AB from Brown in Literary Arts and Modern Culture/Media.

Bonnie Sunstein taught nonfiction writing, ethnographic research, and English education. She has authored FieldWorking and leads writing institutes worldwide, focusing on literacy and nonfiction.

Brandon Sward is a nonfiction MFA candidate at the University of Iowa.

Aileen Tierney is a PhD student in the English department. She specializes in avant-garde literature and the digital humanities.

Kate Torno advises English, Creative Writing, and Museum Studies students at Iowa, supporting academic planning, careers, first-gen success, and undergraduate advocacy.

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 teaches literary theory, architecture, and popular culture. His research interests include narrative theory, 19th-century U.S. literatures, visual culture, and science.

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.

Learn more about Kalleigh Young, Undergraduate Ambassador in the English department 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.