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

Joshua Wheeler is the author of Acid West and co-editor of We Might as Well Call It the Lyric Essay. He teaches creative writing at LSU.

Harris Wheless is a writer from North Carolina and an MFA candidate in Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program.

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.

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.

Learn more about Adam Witte, Graduate student at the University of Iowa.

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.

Learn more about Noa Zapin, Undergraduate Ambassador and Ambassador Lead for Regular Weekly Meetings at the University of Iowa.