October 2-5, 2014

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PRESENTED BY IOWA CITY UNESCO CITY OF LITERATURE ICBF Kids Events SATURDAY Oct. 4

OCTOBER 2-5, 2014 @ IOWA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY 10:30 A.M. CHILDREN’S STORY TIME featuring Wee Gillis, by Munro Leaf. Prepare for WELCOME TO IOWA CITY, the third Sunday’s event celebrating the Waverley novels UNESCO City of Literature in the world, one of of Sir Walter Scott with this Scottish story time. only seven to date, and still the only one in the Bagpipe music included. United States. The Iowa City UNESCO City of 1 P.M. YA AUTHOR EDWARD CAREY Literature organization is proud to offer you four reads from his new novel, Heap House. days of literary programing as part of the 2014 Iowa 2:30 P.M. YA AUTHOR JESSIE ANN City Book Festival. FOLEY reads from her new novel, The Carnival at Bray UNESCO conferred the City of Literature designation on Iowa City in 2008. We are joined by @ THE BOOK FAIR (10 A.M. - 5 P.M.) Edinburgh, Scotland; Melbourne, Australia; Dublin, AILEEN STEWART, author of the Ireland; Reykjavik, Iceland; Norwich, England; and children’s book, Fern Valley, will be in the Book Staff Krakow, Poland, as a City of Literature. Fair Author’s Tent. USBORNE BOOKS: Usborne is an Executive Director Iowa City is a City of Literature for many reasons: independent children’s book publisher with John Kenyon The wonderful writing programs at the University around 2,000 titles in print, and publishes of Iowa, including the Writers’ Workshop and almost every type of children’s book for every Director of International Writing Program, our small presses and age group, from baby books to young adult Operations magazines, our wonderful libraries, our bookstores, novels. Rachael Carlson and amenities like the Iowa Avenue Literary Walk. ZENZIC PRESS: This independent While you are here, we encourage you to explore letterpress printing group will have hands-on Festival Interns all of this and more, to fully immerse yourself in our demonstrations for kids of all ages. Lauren Kostoglanis rich literary culture. THE DEREK PROJECT: Children’s Jessica Frye activities in art and writing related to the idea Grace Coleman MANY PEOPLE WORKED to make this of happiness. year’s festival a reality. They are: Eileen Johnson, chair; Program Design: Larry Baker, Anna Barker, Andy Brodie, Hugh Ferrer, Jordan Sellergren Matthew Lage, John Logsdon, Andre Perry, Matt Matt Steele Steele, Joe Tiefenthaler, Douglas Ward, Elizabeth Sponsors Weiss, Jan Weissmiller. Photos By: City of Iowa City Mary F. Coats THANK YOU: Simon Andrew, Ron Clark, Patrick Joe Mazza DuLaney, Alan Hayes, Amy Hospodarsky, Bobby University of Iowa Elena Seibert Jett, Arthur Kim, Jason T. Lewis, Ina Loewenberg, Marc Moen, Tori Morgensai, Sarah Shonrock, Anne Iowa City Public Library Stapleton, Brian Visser, the Bread Garden, the Iowa City Public Library, Prairie Lights, Old Capitol, the Java Iowa City/Coralville Area Bookmark House, the Senior Center, FilmScene, MidWestOne, Convention & Visitors Bureau Festival Old Brick, the Englert Theatre, the International Events on Writing Program, the Dublin Underground, NewBo The Eastern Iowa Airport the free Books, Legion Arts/CSPS, the Paul Engle Association mobile app: for Community Arts, M.C. Ginsberg, the University Sheraton Iowa City of Iowa College of Medicine, Devotay, the Coralville LITTLE VILLAGE Public Library, Dulcinea, Daydreams Comics, Knutson Construction BEST OF IC University of Iowa Museum of Natural History, (iOS/Android) Beadology, High Ground Cafe, University Book Store, Bradley & Riley PC/Iowa City RSVP, the Trumpet Blossom Cafe, the Mill. Downtown District THURSDAY Oct. 2

CRIME FICTION HEAVYWEIGHT James Ellroy has just published the first book in what he calls the second L.A. Quartet. In Perfidia, Ellroy drops the reader into Los Angeles just before Pearl Harbor is hit. We learn more about many characters who show up in the first L.A. Quartet (including L.A. Confidential and The Black Dahlia) as a trio of police officers investigate the slaying of a Japanese family.

Ellroy will read from the new book, and then fellow crime novelist Craig McDonald will interview the author about his work. McDonald has interviewed Ellroy 7:30 P.M. | OLD BRICK in the past, most notably for his interview (26 E. MARKET ST.) James Ellroy collections, Art in the Blood and Rogue Males. FREE AN EVENING WITH THE Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all Iowa City Book Festival DEMON DOG events. If you need an accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact our office: [email protected], (319) 887-6100

Notes from the Underground

PUBLIC READING of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground.

NOON - 4 P.M. | THE DUBLIN UNDERGROUND (5 S. DUBUQUE ST.) | FREE

Panel: World Novel Today

WRITERS DISCUSS the state of the novel internationally. Featuring Laurynas Katkus (Lithuania), Martina Odonkor (Ghana), Harry Stecopolous and Peter Nazareth (University of Iowa).

NOON | GERBER LOUNGE (ENGLISH-PHILOSOPHY BUILDING, UI CAMPUS) | FREE Luis >> 2014 PAUL ENGLE PRIZE WINNER Alberto Luis Urrea leads a panel discussing issues along the U.S.-Mexico border. 7 P.M. | CORALVILLE CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS Urrea (1301 5TH ST., CORALVILLE) | FREE

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PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR of Gilead and its successor, Home, Marilynne Robinson will read from her new novel, Lila, and then discuss it with Ayana Mathis. Mathis, a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she studied under Robinson, is the author of the Oprah Book Club 2.0 pick The Twelve Tribes of Hattie.

7:30 P.M. ENGLERT THEATRE 221 E. WASHINGTON ST. FREE

IN CONVERSATION WITH Marilynne Ayana Robinson Mathis

Iowa City Book Festival information & updates: Panel: Writing in a IOWACITYBOOKFESTIVAL.ORG Country at War

WHAT ARE A WRITER’S DUTIES, privileges and obligations when his or her country is at war? Panelists are International Writing Program participants Mujib Mehrdad (Afghanistan), Sadek Mohammed (Iraq), and Boaz Gaon (Israel).

12:30 P.M. | MEETING ROOM A, IOWA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY | FREE Screening + Signing

>> ATTENDEES WILL RECEIVE a copy of James Ellroy’s new L.A. novel, Perfidia, and have the chance to meet Ellroy and have their book signed. Ellroy then will speak before the screening about the film and the transition Confidential from page to screen. Tickets are $40 and are available from FilmScene. SIGNING: 6:30 P.M., SCREENING: 7 P.M. | FILMSCENE (118 E. COLLEGE ST.) | $40 (info: www.icfilmscene.org)

4 IOWACITYBOOKFESTIVAL.ORG PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS ALL EVENTS FREE SEE PAGE 6 FOR COMPLETE LINEUP SATURDAY Oct. 4

Book Fair 175th Anniversary ceremony More than 20 vendors and authors will be selling Iowa City was founded in 1839, and as we kick off the Iowa City Book books on the Pedestrian Mall Festival’s Saturday programming, we will take a moment to mark the occasion, 10 A.M. - 5 P.M. (SEE THE MAP ON PAGE taking a brief look back before we move forward. 6-7 FOR A LIST OF VENDORS) 9 A.M. | OLD CAPITOL SENATE CHAMBER

The Dublin Connection FW75—CELEBRATING 75 YEARS OF FINNEGANS Six authors with ties to Dublin will visit this year’s WAKE: 2014 is the 75th anniversary of James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake. To festival in a special collaboration with the Dublin celebrate, the seven UNESCO Cities of Literature joined together to create UNESCO City of Literature. Events include: short films based on some of the stories in the novel. Following the screening, IRISH WRITERS AT THE Ron Clark from Riverside Theatre, one of the stars of Iowa City’s contribution, INTERNATIONAL WRITING will discuss the process of adapting Joyce’s difficult text to the stage. PROGRAM: A CELEBRATION 10 A.M. | FILMSCENE (118 E. COLLEGE ST.) Featuring Stephen James Smith, Paddy Woodworth, Siobhan Campbell, Eamonn Wall, Joseph Woods and Drucilla Wall Glory of the Senses—PAUL ENGLE ESSAY 10 A.M. | OLD CAPITOL SENATE CONTEST CEREMONY: The Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature’s CHAMBER annual essay contest for Iowa high school sophomores includes a top prize of POETRY READING Featuring Smith, one year of free tuition to the University of Iowa, and $500 cash scholarships Campbell and Woods for runners up. Join us as we hear winning students read from their work. 1 P.M. | MEETING ROOM A, IOWA CITY 11:30 A.M. | OLD CAPITOL SENATE CHAMBER PUBLIC LIBRARY PANEL: IRISH-AMERICAN Paul Engle Prize Ceremony— CULTURAL CONNECTIONS LUIS ALBERTO URREA will receive the 2014 Paul Engle Prize. Each Featuring Eamonn Wall, Woods, Campbell and year, the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature awards the Paul Engle Prize Drucilla Wall to a writer who, like Paul Engle, represents a pioneering spirit in the world 2:30 P.M. | OLD CAPITOL SENATE of literature through writing, editing, publishing, or teaching, and whose active CHAMBER participation in the larger issues of the day has contributed to the betterment of the world through the literary arts. Urrea, author, educator and activist, will A Tribute to Donald Justice receive the award, deliver short remarks, and read briefly from his work. Ten years after his passing, the work of Donald 1 P.M. | OLD CAPITOL SENATE CHAMBER Justice continues to resonate. A panel of poets, led by 2013 National Book Award winner Mary Reyna Grande—ONE COMMUNITY ONE BOOK: Szybist, reads from and discusses the work of the Author Reyna Grande talks about her book, The Distance Between Us: A late poet in this special event. Memoir, the 2014 One Community, One Book selection from the University 2:30 P.M. | MEETING ROOM A, IOWA of Iowa Center for Human Rights. 7:30 P.M. | ROOM C20 OF THE CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY POMERANTZ CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF IOWA CAMPUS

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A—POMERANTZ CENTER; 213 North I—ENGLERT THEATRE; 221 E. Washington St. Clinton Street; OLD BRICK; 26 E. Market St. J—FILMSCENE; 118 E. College St. B—HOME EC. WORKSHOP; 207 N. Linn St. 1 P.M. Poetry Embroidery Workshop K—IOWA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY; 123 S. Linn St. C—OLD CAPITOL; Clinton St. & Iowa Ave. 9 AM Iowa City 175th anniversary ROOM A 10 AM Irish Writers at the IWP 10 AM Scott Phillips - Hop Alley; Jon McGoran - 11:30 AM Student Essay Awards Deadout 1 PM Engle Prize - Urrea 11:30 AM Sean Strub - Body Counts; Terrence Holt 2:30 PM Panel: Dublin Connection - Internal Medicine 1 PM Irish Poetry Reading: Stephen James Smith, D—DUBLIN UNDERGROUND; Siobhan Campbell, Joseph Woods 5 S. Dubuque St. 2:30 PM Justice Memorial: Mary Szybist, James Galvin, Jan Weissmiller and others. E—PRAIRIE LIGHTS BOOKSTORE; 4 PM Paddy Woodworth - Our Once And Future 15 S. Dubuque St. Planet; Jeff Biggers - Reckoning At Eagle Creek 10 AM Peyton Marshall - Goodhouse; Marcus Burke - Team Seven TEEN ROOM 11:30 AM Marlon James - A Brief History Of 1 PM Edward Carey - Heap House (YA) IOWA RIVER IOWA Seven Killings 2 PM Jessie Ann Foley - The Carnival At Bray (YA) 1 PM Marilyn Chin - Hard Love Province (Poems) 2:30 PM Kathleen Founds - When Mystical L—THE MILL; 120 E. Burlington St. Creatures Attack!; Heather A. Slomski - The Lovers Set Down Their Spoons M—TRUMPET BLOSSOM CAFE; 4 PM Hubert Pedroli - Joyrider 310 E. Prentiss St.

F—SENIOR CENTER; 28 S. Linn St. 2:30 PM Panel - Loyalty and Betrayal: Chi Li, Craig Vendors 10 AM - 5 PM McDonald, June Melby, Franca Treur, Kinana Issa 4 PM Panel - A Sense of Place 2 Edward Carey, 1—AUTHOR TENT Cynthia Edul, Peyton Marshall, Heather A. Slomski, Featuring Edna Lee Allen, A Better Way; Joseph Tang Siu Wa Dobrian, Willie Wilden; Warren Goldie, Waking Maya; Katherine Perkins-Armond, Dawn of Steam: G—MIDWESTONE BANK; 102 S. Clinton St. First Light; Aileen Stewart, Fern Valley; Tim Trenkle, 10 AM Panel - Breaking In, Breaking Out: Ali Cobby The Kings of Narrow Gate Eckermann, Marlon James, Jon McGoran, Myay 2—AMONG THE STACKS Hmone Lwin, Andra Rotaru 3—THE MINDBRIDGE FOUNDATION 11:30 AM Panel- Writing As Recovery: Auguste Cor- 4—UNIVERSITY OF IOWA BOOKSTORE teau, Heekyung Eun, Sabah Sanhouri, Ahmed Shafie, 5—ICE CUBE PRESS Yeow Kai Cahi 6—IOWA BOOK 1 PM Panel - A Sense of Place 1: Marcus Burke, Bernice 7—ANOMALOUS PRESS Chauly, Jessie Ann Foley, Daren Kamali, Scott Phillips 8—BEN TWEEDT 9—MARY POTTER KENYON H—JAVA HOUSE; 211 E. Washington St. 10—CANDLE LIGHT PRESS 11:30 AM Levi Stahl - The Getaway Car: A Donald 11—INFO/VOLUNTEER CHECK-IN E. Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany; Craig McDonald - 12—UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS Forever’s Just Pretend 13—THE IOWA REVIEW 1 PM June Melby - My Family and Other Hazards 14—PROMPT PRESS 2:30 PM Robert Gutsche Jr. - A Transplanted Chicago: 15—CAMP COURAGEOUS Race, Place And The Press In Iowa City 16—THE DEREK PROJECT 17—USBORNE BOOKS & MORE 6 IOWACITYBOOKFESTIVAL.ORG 80

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AUTHOR JANE SMILEY will read from and discuss her new novel, Some Luck. With this new book, Smiley returns to the Iowa landscape that spawned her best-known work, the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Thousand Acres.

1 P.M. Jane ENGLERT THEATRE 221 E. WASHINGTON ST. FREE Smiley A Day in the City of Literature

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Celebrating Sir Walter Scott 200TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF SIR WALTER SCOTT’S WAVERLEY NOVELS

Celebrate Sir Walter Scott’s Legacy in Iowa with a free literary and musical performance of Scottish culture narrated by Alan Riach, Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow and Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor at The University of Iowa. This program will include readings, music, songs, and dances from and inspired by Scott’s work. Musicians include Scottish fiddler Jeremy Kittel, bagpipers Robert Gray and Ed Raber, soprano Jennifer Macfarlane Haworth, and the Iowa City Crescendo Children’s Choir. Scottish dancers hail from Iowa and Kansas. This program is made possible due to funding from The University of Iowa’s Department of English and Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professorship.

3 P.M. | ENGLERT THEATRE | FREE Roast of Iowa City 5 THE ANNUAL EXCLAMATION POINT on the Iowa City Book Festival, laugh along as locals attempt to bring out the best in Iowa City by dishing out their worst. Hosted by Little Village Editor Arashdeep Singh.

5 P.M. DOORS | THE MILL (120 E. BURLINGTON ST.) | FREE

8 IOWACITYBOOKFESTIVAL.ORG FOR DATES, TIMES AND LOCATIONS SEE MAP ON PAGE 6 - 7 FEATURED Writers

Abdullah Al Wesali is a fiction writer from Saudi Arabia and a participant in the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program.

Binayak Banerjee is a fiction writer, poet, and playwright from India and a participant in the University of Iowa’s Inter- national Writing Program.

Jeff Biggers has worked as a writer and educator across the United States, Europe, Marlon India, and Mexico. His work has appeared on NPR, and in the New York Times, Washing- James ton Post and elsewhere. Reckoning at Eagle Creek is his latest book.

Marcus Burke had a knee injury that led him, a standout athlete, to try fiction. Diego State University. Her newest col- Marlon James is a Jamaican novelist A graduate of the University of Iowa lection is Hard Love Province. who has been teaching English and cre- Writers’ Workshop, his first novel is ative writing at Macalester College since Team Seven. He lives in Iowa City. Ali Cobby Eckermann is a poet from 2007. He is the author of The Book of Australia and a participant in the Universi- Night Women and the new A Brief History Siobhan Campbell is a poet whose ty of Iowa’s International Writing Program. of Seven Killings. collections include Cross-Talk and That Water Speaks in Tongues. She is editor of Cynthia Edul is a playwright and fiction Boaz Gaon is a playwright and fiction Courage and Strength: Poems and Stories by writer from Argentina and a participant writer from Israel and a participant in the Combat Stress Veterans. She is associate in the University of Iowa’s International University of Iowa’s International Writing professor in English Literature/Creative Writing Program. Program. Writing at Kingston University London. Auguste Corteau is a fiction writer, Assaf Gavron has published five novels Edward Carey was born in Norfolk, playwright and translator from Greece and a collection of Jerusalem falafel-joint England, and is the author of the novels and a participant in the University of Io- reviews. As a translator, Gavron is respon- Observatory Mansions and Alva and Irva: the wa’s International Writing Program. sible for highly regarded English-to-He- Twins Who Saved a City. His most recent brew translations of J.D. Salinger and Phil- release is the young adult book, Heap Eun Heekyung is a fiction writer from ip Roth. He is the editor of Tel Aviv Noir. House. South Korea and a participant in the Uni- versity of Iowa’s International Writing Robert Gutsche Jr. is a graduate of Bernice Chauly is a poet, nonfiction Program. the University of Iowa and an assistant and fiction writer, playwright, and film- journalism professor at Florida Interna- maker from Malaysia and a participant Jessie Ann Foley is a Chicago Public tional University in Miami. He is the au- in the University of Iowa’s International Schools English teacher who holds an thor of A Transplanted Chicago: Race, Place Writing Program. MFA from Columbia College Chicago. and the Press in Iowa City. Her debut novel, The Carnival at Bray, won Chi Li is a fiction writer from China and the 2014 Helen Sheehan YA Book Prize. Alan Hayes is publisher of Arlen a participant in the University of Iowa’s House, one of Ireland’s oldest and most International Writing Program. Kathleen Founds teaches social-justice respected literary imprints and a member themed English classes at Cabrillo College of the Management Group of Dublin Marilyn Chin was born in Hong Kong in Watsonville, Calif., and writes while her UNESCO City of Literature. He founded and raised in Oregon. Her books of poet- toddler is napping. Her latest book, When the Dublin Book Festival in 2008. ry have become Asian American classics. Mystical Creatures Attack! received the 2014 She co-directs the MFA program at San John Simmons Short Fiction Award. IOWACITYBOOKFESTIVAL.ORG 9 OCTOBER 2 - 5, 2014

Gerður Kristný is a fiction writer and Sabata-Mpho Mokae is a poet, non- poet from Iceland and a participant in the fiction and fiction writer from South Af- University of Iowa’s International Writing rica and a participant in the University of Program. Iowa’s International Writing Program.

Peyton Marshall grew up near Wash- Myay Hmone Lwin is a poet, fiction ington, D.C. Before enrolling in the Iowa writer and translator from Burma/Myan- Writers’ Workshop, Peyton spent many mar and a participant in the University of years remodeling Craftsman-style homes. Iowa’s International Writing Program. Her work is rooted in ideas about love and the potential brutalities of human life. Martina Odonkor is a fiction writ- Goodhouse is her first novel. er from Ghana and a participant in the University of Iowa’s International Writing Craig McDonald is an award-winning Program. journalist, editor and fiction writer. His debut novel, Head Games, was selected Hubert Pedroli is a financial services as a 2008 Edgar nominee for Best First industry consultant and an avid armchair Novel by an American Author. His latest pilot. His novel, Joyrider, explores what is Reyna is Forever’s Just Pretend. behind the strange sightings in the skies over a little Iowa town. Grande Jon McGoran is the author of Drift, an ecological thriller, and its sequel, Deadout. Scott Phillips is the author of three Writing as D. H. Dublin, he is the author of the most highly acclaimed crime novels of a series of forensic thrillers. He has of recent years: The Ice Harvest, The Walk- Reyna Grande is a novelist and written about food and sustainability for away and Cottonwood. He lives in St. Louis memoirist. Her latest book, The Distance more than twenty years. with his wife and daughter. His new novel Between Us, is the 2014 selection in the is Hop Alley. University of Iowa Center for Human Mujib Mehrdad is a poet, playwright Rights’ One Community One Book and translator from Afghanistan and a Andra Rotaru is a poet and journal- project. She teaches creative writing at participant in the University of Iowa’s In- ist from Romania and a participant in the UCLA Extension. ternational Writing Program. University of Iowa’s International Writing Program. Kinana Issa is a fiction writer and play- June Melby is a widely published writer wright from Syria and a participant in the who lives in Decorah. In 2002 she was the Sabah Sanhouri is a fiction writer from University of Iowa’s International Writing winner of the Children’s Poetry Award at the Sudan and a participant in the University of Program. Edinburgh International Poetry Festival. Her Iowa’s International Writing Program. new book is My Family and Other Hazards. Daren Kamali is a poet and perform- Enrique Serrano is a fiction writer from er from New Zealand and a participant Sadek Mohammed is a poet, trans- Colombia and a participant in the Universi- in the University of Iowa’s International lator and scholar from Iraq and a partic- ty of Iowa’s International Writing Program. Writing Program. ipant in the University of Iowa’s Interna- tional Writing Program. Laurynas Katkus is a poet, fiction writer, translator and essayist from Lith- uania, and a participant in the University Iowa City Book Festival information & updates of Iowa’s International Writing Program. IOWACITYBOOKFESTIVAL.ORG Bookmark Events on the free mobile app: LITTLE VILLAGE - BEST OF IC (IOS/ANDROID)

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Ahmed Shafie is a poet, fiction writer and translator from Egypt and a participant in the University of Iowa’s Interna- tional Writing Program.

Heather A. Slomski is the author of The Lovers Set Down Their Spoons, winner of the 2014 Iowa Short Fiction Award. She received her MFA from Western Michi- gan University.She lives in Minnesota and teaches writing at Concordia College.

Stephen James Smith is a poet and playwright from Dublin. His Dublin Fringe Terrence play ‘Three Men Talking…’ was shortlist- ed for the Bewley’s Little Gem Award in Holt 2011. Stephen is also a regular contribu- tor to national TV and radio, and is director of LINGO, Ireland’s first spoken-word poetry festival. Terrence Holt is an American doctor versity of Nebraska and is an associate and writer as well as a former professor teaching professor and poet in residence Levi Stahl is the publicity manager of of literature at Rutgers University and at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. the University of Chicago Press. He has Swarthmore College. His new book, reviewed books for the Chicago Read- Internal Medicine, offers stories from his Eamonn Wall is author of six col- er and the Bloomsbury Review, He edited medical residency. lections of poetry, most recently Sailing a new collection of the late Donald E. Lake Mareotis. Junction City: Selected Poems Westlake’s non-fiction, Getaway Car. Brian Switek is a freelance science 1990–2014 will be published in 2015. His writer, author of the critically-acclaimed criticism includes Writing the Irish West: Harry Stecopoulos is an associate book Written in Stone, and a paleontology Ecologies and Traditions. professor of English at the University of volunteer at the Natural History Muse- Iowa, where he teaches courses on mod- um of Utah. His latest book is My Beloved Joseph Woods is a poet, editor and ern U.S. literature, culture, and perfor- Brontosaurus. former Director of Poetry Ireland. He mance, with specific interests in the novel, has published three collections of poetry, cultural studies, and postcolonial theory. Tang Siu Wa is a poet and essayist from Sailing to Hokkaido, Bearings and Ocean Let- Hong Kong and a participant in the Univer- ters. Woods was awarded the Katherine Sean Strub is an activist and writ- sity of Iowa’s International Writing Program. and Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship in 2014. er who has been HIV positive for more than 33 years. He founded POZ magazine Natasha Tiniacos is a poet from Ven- Paddy Woodworth is an author, jour- and serves as the executive director of ezuela and a participant in the University nalist, lecturer and tour guide, and cur- the Sero Project. He wrote Body Counts: of Iowa’s International Writing Program. rently an adjunct senior lecturer in the A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS and Survival. School of Languages and Literatures at Franca Treur is a fiction writer from the University College Dublin. His latest Mary Szybist is the author of Incarna- the Netherlands and a participant in the book is Our Once and Future Planet. dine, winner of the 2013 National Book University of Iowa’s International Writing Award for Poetry. Her first book Grant- Program. Yeow Kai Chai is a poet and fiction ed won the 2004 GLCA New Writers writer from Singapore and a participant Award and was a finalist for the National Drucilla Wall is a poet whose debut in the University of Iowa’s International Book Critics Circle Award. collection is The Geese at the Gates. She Writing Program. holds a doctorate in English from the Uni-

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BOOK AS ART/ART AS BOOK An up- PhD candidate Andrew Williams to create a ASSAF GAVRON | TEL AVIV NOIR: close look at artist’s books and how we care multimedia profile of Communications Studies Gavron has published five, a collection of short for them. University Conservator Giselle Simón professor Kembrew McLeod. The team will stories, and a non-fiction collection of Jerusalem will also lead a tour of the lab. present highlights and McLeod will read. falafel-joint reviews. He co-edited the new 11 A.M. | UNIVERSITY OF IOWA 2 P.M. | MEETING ROOM A, IOWA collection Tel Aviv Noir with Etgar Keret. LIBRARIES SPECIAL COLLECTIONS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 P.M. | PRAIRIE LIGHTS AND CONSERVATION LAB (THIRD FLOOR, UI MAIN LIBRARY, 125 W. MIKE YOUNG, GENE KWAK, MIKE RESCUE PRESS READING WASHINGTON ST.) SCHLESINGER, DELANEY NOLAN, Marc Rahe’s poetry collection is The Smaller AND ALICE GRIBBIN Half. Lauren Haldeman’s first poetry collection is READING ALOUD GROUP Read from their poetry Calenday. Blueberry Morningsnow’s first poetry READING: The poetry-reading group based 2 P.M. | RSVP collection is Whale in the Woods. at the Senior Center will read poems selected 3 P.M. | RSVP from the international anthology, A Book of FROM PAGE TO PATHWAY: Luminous Things, edited by Czeslaw Milosz. CONNECTING TO OUR NATURAL ICE CUBE PRESS READING 11:30 A.M. | IOWA CITY SENIOR WORLD THROUGH PICTURE Salvatore Marici, Quad Cities Poet Laureate, in CENTER BOOKS: Author/illustrator Claudia McGehee a discussion and reading from his new poetry will be joined by Biosphere Discovery Hub and collection, Swish Swirl & Sniff, and Ice Cube MARY POTTER KENYON UI Museum of Natural history as she shares Press publisher and author, Steve Semken who REFINED BY FIRE: A JOURNEY OF her experiences illustrating and writing nature will talk about publishing and his new book, Soul GRIEF AND GRACE: Kenyon intimately focused picture books, and the inspirations External: Rediscovering the Great Blue Heron. knows what it is to face grief. In the space behind her work. 2:30 P.M. | UI MUSEUM 3 P.M. | UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE of three years she lost a mother, a husband, OF NATURAL HISTORY and an eight-year-old grandson. NOON HOT TIN ROOF: 2014 honorees will read CORALVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY PANEL: AT LANGUAGE’S EDGE from their work. 3:30 P.M. | TRUMPET International Writing Program participants BLOSSOM CAFÉ PAUL INGRAM | THE LOST Natasha Tiniacos (Venezuela) and Sabata-Mpho CLERIHEWS OF PAUL INGRAM Mokae (South Africa) join poet Marilyn Chin and SPANISH MFA: Poets and Writers from Legendary bookseller at Prairie Lights Book- Waukon-based translator Mary Jane White in a the MFA in Spanish Creative Writing Programs store in Iowa City, Ingram has found what he discussion about what it means to translate, and to and the Department of Spanish and Portu- feared was long lost—his collection of humor- have their work translated into other languages. guese, José Pablo Barragán, Giuseppe Caputo, ous, intelligent, rollicking, and witty clerihews. 3 P.M. | MEETING ROOM A, IOWA Patricia Gonzalo de Jesús, Martín López-Vega, NOON | DEVOTAY CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY Beverly Pérez- Rego and Pedro Samper will read their work in Spanish. AILEEN STEWART | FERN VALLEY: LAUREN K. ALLEYNE 4 P.M. | PRAIRIE LIGHTS Fern Valley is home to a group of wonderful DIFFICULT FRUIT: Alleyne hails from the animals who have fun and face some of the twin-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. She PANEL: RELIGION AND WRITING same problems children everywhere do. is Poet-in-Residence and an assistant professor International Writing Program participants NOON | DULCINEA of English at the University of Dubuque. Diffi- Binayak Banerjee (India), Gerður Kristný cult Fruit is her new collection of poems. (Iceland), Enrique Serrano (Colombia), and JOHN IRA THOMAS | LOST IN THE 3 P.M. | BEADOLOGY IOWA Abdullah Al Wesali (Saudi Arabia) discuss how WASH: Thomas, of Candle Light Press, will religious heritage shapes an author’s writing. present his Indiefab award-winning comic series, BART YATES | THE THIRD HILL 4 P.M. | MEETING ROOM A, IOWA Lost in the Wash. NORTH OF TOWN: Yates gives instru- CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY 2 P.M. | DAYDREAMS COMICS ment lessons in the Corridor and has taught workshops at the University of Iowa’s Summer SARAH KOSCH AND BRENDEN CITIZEN SCHOLARS WITH Writing Festival. Among his books, the new The SPENGLER will read from their work. KEMBREW MCLEOD Third Hill North of Town is a haunting, imaginative 4 P.M. | WHITE RABBIT The University of Iowa Mobile App Develop- story of human connection and coincidence. (112 S. LINN ST.) ment Team worked this summer with English 3 P.M. | HIGH GROUND CAFÉ