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Oct. 8-15, 2017 Oct. 8-15, 2017

STAFF Welcome to Iowa City, the third UNESCO City of Literature, Donations: The vast and one of 20 in the world. The Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature majority of Executive organization is proud to offer you eight days of literary programing as part Festival events are Director of the 2017 Iowa City Book Festival. offered without John Kenyon charge. But they are UNESCO conferred the City of Literature designation on Iowa City in not free. Your tax- Director of 2008. We are joined by , Scotland; , ; , deductible donation Operations Ireland; Reykjavik, ; , England; Krakow, ; Heidelberg, gives us the ability Rachael Carlson ; , ; Dunedin, Australia; Granada, ; to continue working , ; , Spain; , ; , ; toward our mission to Program Design Montevideo, ; , ; Obidos, ; celebrate and support Little Village Tartu, ; and Ulyanovsk, , as a City of Literature. literature on a local, regional, national, and Cover Iowa City is a City of Literature for many reasons: The world-renowned international level, Blair Gauntt writing programs at the , including the Writers’ Workshop connecting readers and and International Writing Program, our small presses and magazines, our writers through the Marketing wonderful , our bookstores, and amenities like the Iowa Avenue power of story. Please Assistants Literary Walk. While you are here, we encourage you to explore all of this support the Book Alison McCarty and more, to fully immerse yourself in our rich literary culture. Festival and the City of Rachel Jepsen Literature by texting the Many people worked to make this year’s festival a reality. They include: word “book” Intern Anna Barker, Natasa Durovicova, Hugh Ferrer, Kathleen Johnson, Kathleen to Sarah Nelson Maris, Jason Paulios, Andre Perry, Matt Steele, Joe Tiefenthaler, Jan (319) 774-7669 Weissmiller. and follow the link. THANK YOU: Simon Andrew, Maeve Clark, Susan Craig, Ina Loewenberg, Mara Cole, Beth Fisher, the Iowa City Public , Prairie Book Drive: To benefit Lights, FilmScene, the Englert Theatre, the International Writing Program, victims of domestic M.C. Ginsberg, Coralville Public Library, Alison Ames Galstad, Kathrina violence at the Litchfield, Kathleen Johnson, University of Iowa Center for Human Rights, Domestic Violence Aron Aji, United Way of Johnson County, Trinity Ray and the Tuesday Intervention Program Agency, Jason Lewis, Matt Steele, Jordan Sellergren, Little Village, Iowa (DVIP). boxes Writers’ House, Hancher Auditorium, and Iowa Public Radio, City of Iowa will be located festival City, City of Coralville, Iowa Arts Council, RADInc., and Simeon Talley. events.

2 iowacitybookfestival.org Sunday, Oct. 8, 2017 G. Willow Wilson: A Superhero for Generation Why 2 p.m., Hancher Auditorium

Willow Wilson is a superhero G.who employs her literary powers to address pressing issues including religious intolerance and gender politics. In fiction, nonfiction, and comics, the American convert to Islam has distinguished herself as a writer of remarkable originality and insight. In her lecture, Wilson uses the challenges Ms. Marvel—a Pakistani-American Muslim teenager—faces as a parallel for the challenges of a misunderstood generation: the millennials. She’ll discuss the genesis of Ms. Marvel, her roots in the historical science fiction/fantasy tradition, and the significance of writing a superhero for a millennial (and wider) audience. Wilson’s memoir, The Butterfly Mosque, which recounts her life in Egypt during the waning day of the Mubarak regime, is the 2017 selection for the One Community, One Book program sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights. This event is free and unticketed. Presented by Hancher as part of its Embracing Complexity program. Additional support for Wilson’s lecture and residency has been provided by the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop, International Writing Program, and Nonfiction Writing Program and also from Daydreams Comics.

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All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Events subject to change. For the most complete schedule, please visit iowacitybookfestival.org

Panel Discussions: IWP 50th Panel: World Literature Today Iowa City Public Library, Tuesday, Oct. 10, noon Jeremy Tiang, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Peter Nazareth, Lorna Goodison, Tim Parks

IWP 50th Panel: Fifty Years of Latin American Literature Iowa City Public Library, Wednesday, Oct. 11, noon Luis Bravo, Alberto Fuguet, Pola Oloixarac

IWP 50th Panel: One Chinese Language, Many Chinese Literatures Iowa City Public Library, Thursday, Oct. 12, noon Ya Hsien, Poon Yiu Ming, Li Di An, Jin Feng, Dung Kai-cheung, Bi Feiyu

IWP 50th Panel: National Literatures in a Time of Rising Nationalisms Iowa City Public Library, Friday, Oct. 13, noon Daniel Simon, Anja Utler, Sadek Mohammed, Luljeta Lleshanaku, Dung Kai-cheung : Tim Parks Prairie Lights Book, Monday, Oct. 9, 7 p.m., Pola Oloixarac and Alberto Fuguet Prairie Lights , Tuesday, Oct. 10, 7 p.m. IWP 50th Anniversary Poetry : Luis Bravo and Anja Utler Shambaugh House, 430 N. Clinton St., Thursday, Oct. 12, 4 p.m. Gala: 50th Anniversary Gala: Dinner, Readings and a Sound/Poetry Performance Wednesday, Oct. 11, 6 p.m., Iowa Memorial Union (IMU) 2nd Floor Ballroom. Ticket price: $125. For advance tickets, email [email protected] or visit iwp50.grad.edu.

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or sexual preference, as long as they cheer for the same college football team (Go All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Events subject to Vols!). It is about leaving behind bigotry, change. For the most complete schedule, please visit iowacitybookfestival.org but remembering the fried okra. The “WellRED Comedy Tour” comes Moby Dick to the Englert in partnership with the Tuesday, Oct. 10, 9 a.m.–9 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 11, 9 a.m.–7 Tuesday Agency. Tickets are $27 and p.m., Old Capitol (21 N Clinton St.); Thursday, Oct. 12, 10 a.m.–1 are on sale at www.Englert.org. p.m., Macbride Hall (17 N Clinton St.)

his year’s read-aloud classic novel is Moby Dick, which Reading at Arm’s Twill be read from the steps of the Old Capitol on Tues- Length: Literature day, Oct. 10, and Wednesday, Oct. 11, and from under the Across Borders giant whale skeleton in Macbride Hall on Thursday, Oct. Wednesday, Oct. 11, 5 p.m., Prairie Lights 12. Please sign up for a 20 minute reading slot at mobydick- (15 S Dubuque St.) [email protected]. ow do we listen to liter- Hary voices that belong to cultures that are remote from us? A multi-ethnic writer from Turkey, an Israeli protest poet, or a radical innovator of lan- guage from Brazil? How does literature transport ‘difference’ across cultural borders, to readers who do not share the same cultural experiences that animate a given literary work? Questions like these often hound literary translators who are chiefly responsible for making literary works move across the globe without losing their authentic, consummate qualities. Please join us for a conversation-reading with award-winning translators Lisa Katz, and Hilary Kaplan, WellRED comedy moderated by Aron Aji, Director of the Wednesday, Oct. 11, 7 p.m., $27, Englert Theatre (221 E Iowa Translation Workshop. Washington St.)

rae Crowder (The Liberal Redneck), Drew Holy Cow! Press TMorgan and Corey Ryan Forrester are stand-up anniversary reading comedy and writing partners. The trio has been touring Wednesday, Oct. 11, 7 p.m., Prairie Lights nationally to sold out clubs and theatres in support of (15 S Dubuque St.) their best-selling book, Liberal Redneck Manifesto: Draggin Dixie Outta the Dark. elebrating 40 years of the Duluth- This year’s tour, wellRED: From Dixie With Love​, is Cby-way-of-Iowa City independent about celebrating everything great about the South and press, featuring founder and publisher telling stories from a place of love. It’s about dancing to Jim Perlman, and authors Dan Campi- country music at a gay wedding. It’s about loving your on, Crystal Spring Gibbins, and Gary neighbor whether you have the same religion, skin color, Boelhower.

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organization. advocacy organization, ACT UP. He The prize, established in 2011, lives in New York City. honors an individual who, like Paul His debut novel, Edinburgh, was praised Engle, represents a for its careful handling on pioneering spirit in the the difficult subject of sexual world of literature through abuse. It was the winner writing, , , of the Whiting Award, the or teaching, and whose James Michener/Copernicus active participation in the Society Fellowship Prize, larger issues of the day Iowa Writers’ Workshop’s has contributed to the Michener Copernicus Prize in betterment of the world Fiction, and was the recipient through the literary arts. of the Lambda Literary Chee will receive the Foundation Editor’s Choice prize, which includes a one- Award. of-a-kind work of art and His second novel, Queen $10,000, during a special ceremony as of the Night, a historical novel about a part of the Iowa City Book Festival on female opera singer, was published in Paul Engle Prize: Oct. 12. The event is at 7 p.m. at the 2016, and was met with high praise. Alexander Chee Coralville Public Library, and is free It was named “epic” by Vogue and with Garth Greenwell and open to the public. wrote that it is, Thursday, Oct. 12, 7 p.m., Coralville Public Chee, a graduate of the University “extraordinarily beautiful and dramatic, Library (1401 5th St., Coralville) of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, is a a brilliant performance.” Korean-American writer, poet, The Paul Engle Prize is made possible lexander Chee has been named reviewer, and renowned essayist who through the generous support of the Athe sixth recipient of the Paul writes honestly and fiercely on subjects City of Coralville, which is home to 11 Engle Prize, presented by the Iowa such as race, gender, and LGBTQ+ permanent sculptures with artistic and City UNESCO City of Literature issues. He is also a veteran of the AIDS literary ties to Iowa.

Examined Life Conference Keynote: Dr. Rafael Campo Friday, Oct. 13. 7 p.m., Old Capitol Senate Chambers (21 N Clinton St.)

r. Rafael Campo, keynote speaker for the University of Iowa’s The DExamined Life Conference, will speak and read from his work at 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 13, in the Old Capitol Senate Chambers. Free and open to the public. Campo, a graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Medical School, currently teaches and practices general internal medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where his medical practice serves mostly Latinos, gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered people, and people with HIV infection. He is also on the faculty of the Lesley University Creative Writing MFA program. He is the author of The Other Man Was Me (Arte Público Press, Houston, 1994), which won the 1993 National Poetry Series Award; What the Body Told (Duke University Press, Durham, 1996), which won a Lambda for Poetry; and The Poetry of Healing: A Doctor’s Education in Empathy, Identity, and Desire (W.W. Norton, New York, 1997), a collection of essays now available in under the title The Desire to Heal, which also won a Lambda Literary Award, for memoir. In November 2013 Duke University Press published his 6th book of poems, Alternative Medicine.

6 iowacitybookfestival.org Saturday Panels Saturday, Masonic Building (312 E College St.) Book Fair For all Saturday times & locations see map on 10 a.m.–4 p.m., Ped mall Meet authors, lists? Do you need to carry a small pages 8–9. Events subject to change. For the artists, publishers, booksellers, and more. notebook? Why not make your most complete schedule, Please visit www. own? Join Julie Russell-Steuart iowacitybookfestival.org. See schedule on p. 8 Deconstructing Picture Books of Caveworks Press to make a for panel participants with Sarah Prineas and Michelle simple booklet with a decorative Edwards 10 a.m. RADinc. (123 E paper cover in this workshop. This Publishing Now: Stories that Sell 10 a.m. A Washington St.) upstairs. Goodnight structure needs no glue or even a panel of authors, editors, and publishers comes moon. Goodnight room. Goodnight ... ruler. Your booklet will have 24 together for a conversation on their current nobody? Michelle Edwards and Sarah pages, but the design allows for projects, trends in the publishing industry, and Prineas invite you to join them at the more, if you wish to try that at their insights into the process. Panelists bring downtown studio where they work. home later. Instruction handout viewpoints from varying geographic regions, Together they are deconstructing provided. We will have a variety writing genres, and industry perspectives, in picture books—like Margaret Wise of handmade Lokta papers for the order to shine a light into the literary world Brown’s Goodnight Moon—to see how cover. Free, but space is limited. and help emerging writers consider the paths they work, and taking what they Pre-registration required at www. to their own passion projects. Steve Semken, learn to seek out new ways of making iowacitybookfestival.org Publisher, Ice Cube Press; Andrea Wilson, meaning. They will talk about how Founder & Executive Director, Iowa Writers’ they collaborate, how they understand Free Generative Writing House; Julia Fierro, author; Inara Verzemnieks, the bones of story, how their process Workshop: Shadow Box author works, and they’ll share the story they 1 p.m., Writing Workshop Tent, wrote together. This presentation will Weatherdance Fountain Stage, A Sense of Place 11:30 p.m. Place and setting be of interest to anyone interested in Ped Mall Looking at visual art are key in many kinds of writing. How do story, process, and collaboration. No opens writers to new possibilities you convey a sense of place or paint a unique registration required. of form. In this workshop we’ll landscape? In what ways does location explore Joseph Cornell’s surreal contribute to your writing? Can a literary Workshops shadow boxes, experiment with the work truly be ‘universal,’ or will place always Ped Mall near the Weatherdance juxtaposition of found objects and determine how a piece is understood? Larry Fountain, rain location: Meeting cut up images in order to create Baker, Jacquelyn Vincenta, Will Bardenwerper, Room D, Iowa City Public Library (123 writing rich with startling metaphor. Audrey Chin, Anne Kennedy S Linn St.) All workshops are free, Writers in any genre are welcome. but space is limited. Register at Now in its fourth inspiring year, the Writing as Recovery 1 p.m. Isn’t most writing, iowacitybookfestival.org Free Generative Writing Workshop even experimental literature, fundamentally is Iowa City’s only monthly writing grounded in pain, trauma, loss? How does The Iowa Youth Writing Project workshop that brings together adult one write through such profound experiences, presents: Play With Your Words! writers of all levels to have their and does writing ultimately release this 10 a.m., Workshop Tent, Weatherdance imaginations sparked by our area’s trauma? What balance do you strike between Fountain Stage, Ped Mall Are you in love most talented writers and teachers, comforting and unsettling the reader? Melissa with letters? Do you wonder at words? at absolutely no cost. The goal is Fraterrigo, Whitney Terrell, Mike Lankford, Are you smitten with sentences? Come to create a supportive environment Antoinette Tidjani Alou, Xavier Villanova join the Iowa Youth Writing Project where participants can generate new for an hour of imaginative writing, writing and meet others interested Who Do You Read? 2:30 p.m. What authors word games, and fun with language! in the same. Each month a different do you love to read, in your own or other We’ll provide you with supplies – all talented writer-teacher from our literatures? Has one writer or one particular you need is a love of writing and sense area will invite us to write from text been the igniting experience that opened of adventure! Pre-registration required an original prompt -- and then up the path of writing for you? Donald Ray at www.iowacitybookfestival.org. For compose along beside us as we Pollock, Lori Erickson, Fujino Kaori, Enza grades K-3. explore where that prompt leads. Garcia Arreaza, Yaara Shehori After writing, we’ll have the option Workshop: Booklet with to share what we’ve created and Politics Masonic Lodge, 4 p.m. Writers discuss Decorative Paper Covers 11:30 a.m., receive feedback. Free, but space is how the current political landscape affects their Workshop Tent, Weatherdance Fountain limited. Pre-registration required at work. Loren Cooper, Nathan Englander, Yuriy Stage, Ped Mall Are you always making www.iowacitybookfestival.org. Serebriansky, Ramsha Ashraf, Okky Madasari

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10 a.m. Ted Genoways, This Blessed Earth; 10 a.m. Jennifer Colville, Francesca 10 a.m. Larry Baker, From a Distance, Kathryn Gamble and Barbara Hall, Abbate and Jennifer Pritchard, New Loren W. Cooper, CrossTown Women and the Land releases from PromptPress and Elegies for 11:30 a.m. Daniel Wallace, Star Wars: On 11:30 a.m. Inara Verzemnieks, Among the Uncanny Girls the Front Lines Living and the Dead 11:30 a.m. Manuel Vilas, América 1 p.m. Nathan Englander, Dinner at the 1 p.m. Julia Fierro, The Gypsy Moth Summer Book Fair Vendor List Center of the Earth; Chris Adrian, The 2:30 p.m. Whitney Terrell, The Good Children’s Hospital Lieutenant • Art Legacy League 2:30 p.m. Mike Lankford, Becoming 4 p.m. Melissa Fraterrigo, Glory Days and • Caveworks Press & Studios Leonardo, Steve Paul, Hemingway at 18 Jacquelyn Vincenta, The Lake and the Lost • Free Generative Writing Workshops 4 p.m. Jon K. Lauck, From Warm Center to Girl • Ice Cube Press Ragged Edge • Iowa City UNESCO City of D Masonic Building Literature • The Iowa Review B Prairie Lights Bookstore 10 a.m. Panel: Publishing Now. Inara • IowaWatch.org Verzemnieks, Julia Fierro, Andrea • The Iowan 10 a.m. Zachary Turpin, The Life and Wilson, Steve Semken • Iowa Writers’ House Adventures of Jack Engle; Ed Folsom and 11:30 a.m. Panel: A Sense of Place. • Iowa Youth Writing Project Christopher Merrill, Song of Myself With Larry Baker, Jacquelyn Vincenta, Will • Mindbridge Foundation Complete Commentary Bardenwerper, Audrey Chin, Anne • North American Review 11:30 a.m. Donald Ray Pollock, Heaven’s Kennedy • Promptpress Table 1 p.m. Panel: Writing as Recovery: • Rex Imperator 1 p.m. Jon Kerstetter, Crossings: A Doctor- Melissa Fraterrigo, Whitney Terrell, • University Of Iowa Press Soldier Story Mike Lankford, Antoinette Tidjani Alou, • Usborne Books and More 2:30 p.m. Will Bardenwerper, The Prisoner Xavier Villanova • Frances Cannon, author of The Highs in His Palace 2:30 p.m. Panel: Who Do You Read? and Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big-Little 4 p.m. Lori Erickson, Holy Rover Donald Ray Pollock, Lori Erickson, Frank Fujino Kaori, Enza Garcia Arreaza, • Eliza David, Author of Savage Yaara Shehori • Joseph Dobrian, Author of Hard Wired 4 p.m. Panel: Politics. Loren Cooper, • Erin Gitchell, Author of The Feast Nathan Englander, Yuriy Serebriansky, • Justine Johnston Hemmestad, Author Ramsha Ashraf, Okky Madasari of Truth Be Told • Jeffrey Ryan, Author of Appalachian Odyssey: A 28-Year Hike On America’s Trail

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iowacitybookfestival.org 9 Sunday All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Events subject to change. For the most complete schedule, please visit iowacitybookfestival.org

Blair Gauntt Point of View children’s writers: all who work creatively are workshop with Julia welcome. High school and up, limited to 12 Fierro participants. Join Michelle Edwards and 1–4 p.m., $65, Iowa Writers’ Sarah Prineas at RAD studios. House, (332 E Davenport St.). Open to the first 14 Reading Aloud 2 p.m., RADInc. (123 E registrants. Register at www. Washington St.) Reading Aloud, the Senior iowawritershouse.org. Center-based poetry-reading group, will raft workshop featuring present a program of political poems as CBrooklyn-based novelist part of the Book Festival. The poems deal and Iowa Writers’ Workshop with many political issues – censorship, war, graduate, Julia Fierro. slavery – with particular focus on the plight Participants will learn writing and dreams of immigrants. The readers are techniques for using point- Michael Chan, Jim Curry, Jonni Ellsworth, of-view as the foundation on Chuck Felling, Mary Gutmann, Ina Loewenberg, Nancy which successful structure, Lynch, Cari Malone, Kathy Mitchell, Betty Norbeck and Jim character, and language are built. Piper.

Joe Kyugen Michaud 10 a.m., Iowa City Zen Center (1025 Frances Cannon and John Ira Thomas Fairchild St.) Joe will read from his latest book Prairie Wind. 2 p.m., Daydreams Comics (21 S Dubuque St.) Frances Cannon is Nature Poems with a Zen Flavor. This will be for the first half of a writer and artist of hybrid mediums. Her latest release is The the reading. For the second half he will Highs & Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big-Little Frank (2017). John read Zen wisdom tales in verse selected Ira Thomas is the author of over twenty books, including the from his first two books of Zen poetry. award-winning graphic novel MAN IS VOX: Barracudae (2015 Joe’s books will be on sale, a percentage Indiefab Silver Medal in Graphic Novels) from Candle Light of the proceeds will go to the Zen Press. His newest book is MAN IS VOX: Paingels (Expanded Center. )

Rescue Press + Response Kenneth Whyte author of Hoover: An Handwriting Project 11:30 a.m., Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times R.S.V.P. (140 N Linn St.) Join Rescue Press 5 p.m. Prairie Lights (15 S Dubuque St.) Whyte will read from this and the Response Handwriting Project lauded new biography of Herbert Hoover, for poetry and mimosas. the native Iowan who became the nation’s 31st president. Cities of Literature reading 1 p.m., RADInc. (123 E Washington St.) Iowa City is one of 20 UNESCO-designated Hot Tin Roof reading 3:30 p.m., The Cities of Literature in the world Writers from some of the Mill (120 E Burlington St.) Hot Tin Roof is a other 19 Cities of Literature around the world, including program to showcase current literary work Julienne Van Loon, Melbourne; Sadek Mohammed, Baghdad; produced in the Iowa City/Cedar Rapids and Alice Gribbin, Nottingham/Iowa City will read. Come metro area. Each month, a selected piece hear writers from other Cities of Literature read from their under 1,000 words is published in Little Village, and the author work. receives a $100 honorarium. Hot Tin Roof writers past and present will gather to read from their work. Story Bones Workshop 1:30 p.m., RADinc. (123 E Washington St.) upstairs, register at www.iowacitybookfestival. The Roast of Iowa City 5 p.m., The Mill (120 E Burlington org In a collaborative studio environment, explore a new St.) Year after year, some of the area’s most treasured comics way of seeing and developing story. With paints, brushes, and writers gather together to relentlessly burn and mock a roll of paper, and an awareness of how process is related everything sacred and dear about our town. It’s the 8th annual to the materials we work with, we will deconstruct a picture Roast of Iowa City, the exclamation point on the Iowa City book and use what we learn to write a new story. Not just for Book Festival! Hosted by Jessica Misra and Mike Lucas.

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Francesca Abbate is the Post, Newsweek, and other Alexander Chee is the and a Ph.D. in English and author of Troy, Unincorporated journals. sixth recipient of the Paul Creative Writing from the (University of Chicago Engle Prize, to be presented University of Utah. Press, 2012). Her poetry Gary Boelhower, author by the Iowa City UNESCO has appeared in journals of Naming Rites: Poems, has City of Literature at the Loren W. Cooper, an au- such as Field, Free Verse, The taught ethics, leadership, Iowa City Book Festival, thor living in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Review, Poetry, and Poetry and spirituality at the under- Oct. 12. The prize includes works for Hewlett-Packard Daily, and, most recently, graduate and graduate levels $10,000 and a one-of-a- as a Global Systems Engi- in The Laurel Review, The for thirty years. He is the kind work of art. Chee’s neering Manager. His works Cincinnati Review, and Gulf author of Marrow, Muscle, latest novel is The Queen of include one short story col- Coast online. An associate Flight: Poems, which won the the Night. lection, one nonfiction title, professor of English at Midwest Book Award for and four novels. CrossTown is Beloit College, she lives in poetry. Audrey Chin is a fiction his latest book. Beloit and Milwaukee and non-fiction writer from Luis Bravo, a 2012 Inter- Singapore. She has a doc- Eliza David is the author Chris Adrian is a grad- national Writing Program torate in public policy and of the five-star rated, uate of the Iowa Writers’ participant, is a poet and worked in investment bank- six-book Cougarette Series as Workshop and an Assistant performer, essayist, literary ing. Her story collection Nine well as her latest five-star Professor of Pediatrics investigator, and professor. Cuts was shortlisted for the standalone novel, BrewGirl. at Columbia University He has published many 2016 Singapore Literature David is a contributing writ- Medical Center. He has works of poetry in book Prize. (IWP) er for the blogs Real Moms three novels: Gob’s Grief, The form and as multimedia, of Eastern Iowa and Thirty Children’s Hospital, and The most recently Lichen (2014). Jennifer Colville lives in on Tap. Great Night. Iowa City and is the author Dan Campion is the of Elegies for Uncanny Girls Li Di An is a 2017 Inter- Ramsha Ashraf is a poet author of Peter De Vries and (2017). She is the founding national Writing Program and playwright from Paki- Surrealism and coeditor of editor of PromptPress, guest writer. She is the stan. She has a collection Walt Whitman: The Measure a journal for visual art. author of the trilogy Nanyin: of poetry, Enmeshed (2015), of His Song (Holy Cow! Colville holds an MFA Memory of the City of Dragon. publishes poems on her blog Press) and a contributor of from Syracuse University Published in succession, Escritura 415 and elsewhere, poetry to many magazines, and contributes to literary including Light, Measure, The magazines. (IWP) Midwest Quarterly, The North American Review, Poetry, Rolling Larry Baker, an Iowa Stone, and Shenandoah. City-based writer and professor, is the author of Rafael Campo current- The Flamingo Rising, which ly teaches and practices was Iowa’s selection for the internal medicine in Boston. 2010 National Book Festival His fifth book of poems, in Washington, D.C. Baker The Enemy, won the Sheila published his sixth novel, Motton Book Prize from the From a Distance, with Ice New England Poetry Club, Cube Press (2017). one of the nation’s oldest poetry organizations. Will Bardenwerper is an American writer specializ- Frances Cannon is a ing in narrative nonfiction writer and artist of hybrid and his debut novel, The mediums. Her latest book, Prisoner in His Palace, was The Highs & Lows of Shape- published in June 2017. He shift Ma and Big-Little Frank, has penned articles for the will be released later this New York Times, Washington year by Gold Wake Press. Nathan Englander

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Asian Literary Prize for Kaori Fujino is a fiction Three Sisters. writer from Japan. She writes short stories and Jin Feng is Professor of novellas about the horror Chinese in the Department that lurks behind everyday of Chinese and Japanese at life. In 2006 she won the Grinnell College. She is the Bungakukai Prize for New author of Romancing the In- Writers for her story “Iyashii ternet: Consuming and Producing tori” [The Greedy Bird]. Chinese Web Romance (2013). Her most recent collection of stories is Final Girl (2016). Julia Fierro is a gradu- (IWP) ate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the author Kathryn Gamble’s com- of the novels Gypsy Moth mercial photography clients Summer and Cutting Teeth. include ACLU, Meredith She founded The Sackett Corporation, Sweet Paul Street Writers’ Workshop in Magazine and Von Maur. 2002, which has grown into Her book, Women and the a creative home to 4,000+ Land, is out now from Ice Bi Feiyu writers throughout the Cube Press. . Enza Garcia Arreaza is from 2009 to 2012, the tional Short Story Award Ed Folsom, Whitman a fiction writer and poet trilogy has sold more than 2 and a finalist for the 2013 Archive co-director, is the from Venezuela. She is million copies. Pulitzer Prize for What We Carver Professor of English an essayist for the cultural Talk About When We Talk at The University of Iowa. platform Backroom Caracas Joseph Dobrian is a About Anne Frank. He is Since 1983, he has served as and for the magazine novelist, essayist, poet, and currently the Distinguished Editor of the Walt Whitman Climax. In 2016, she was financial journalist living Writer-in-Residence at New Quarterly Review. He selected by the Guadalajara in Iowa City. His writing York University. co-edited Leaves of Grass: The International Book Fair for experience spans more than Sesquicentennial Essay (2007). “Ochenteros,” a program three decades. Dobrian is Lori Erickson is a travel for Latin American writers the author of the best-selling writer specializing in spiri- Melissa Fraterrigo is born in the 1980s. (IWP) collection of essays, Seldom tual journeys. In Holy Rover, the author of the novel Right But Never In Doubt, and from Fortress Press, she Glory Days (University of Ted Genoways is an the novel Hard-Wired. weaves her personal narra- Nebraska Press, 2017) and acclaimed journalist and au- tive with descriptions of a the short story collection The thor of This Blessed Earth. He Michelle Edwards is the dozen pilgrimages to holy Longest Pregnancy. Her work is the winner of a National author and illustrator of sites around the world. has been featured in more Press Club Award and the many books for children, than forty literary journals James Aronson Award for one book for adults, and Bi Feiyu has published and anthologies. Social Justice Journalism. nearly one hundred essays more than 20 novels and and cards for knitters. short story collections, Alberto Fuguet is a Crystal Spring Gibbins Michelle lives in Iowa City several of which have been Chilean writer, journalist, is the editor of Split Rock with her husband, a house awarded prizes, including film critic, and film director. Review and the recipient full of books, yarn, and two Lu Xun prizes. In 2004, His fifth novel, The Movies of fellowships from the the artifacts of their three he was named Most Favorite of My Life (2003), details his Arrowhead Regional Arts daughter’s childhoods. Chinese Writer in . youth in California and his Council and the Minnesota He is the winner of the return to Santiago at the age State Arts Board. She lives Nathan Englander was 2015 Mao Dun Prize for of ten. The novel was pub- on the south shore of Lake the 2012 recipient of the Massage, and the 2010 Man lished in the United States Superior. Now/Here is her Frank O’Connor Interna- by HarperCollins. first published collection.

12 iowacitybookfestival.org Erin Gitchell is the and spiritual life. She lives has appeared in The Best Midwestern Regionalism, 1920- author of The Feast (2014) in Iowa. American Essays, River Teeth, 1965 (2017). and several other novels, and other literary journals. novellas, short stories, and Dung Kai-cheung, was a He lives in Iowa. Luljeta Lleshanaku won nonfiction written under 2009 International Writing the National Silver Pen Prize pseudonyms. She has a Program resident. Most Joe Kyugen Michaud has in 2000 and the Internation- Masters of Library and recently he has authored been meditating daily since al Kristal Vilenica Prize in Information Sciences and a Cantonese Love Stories: Twen- 1973. He has self-published 2009. Her collection Child of B.A. in Modern Languages ty-five Vignettes of a City (2017) nine books with Camp Pope Nature was a finalist for the and lives in Iowa. and Atlas: The Archaeology of Publishing, and is the author 2011 Best Translated Book an Imaginary City (2012). of Iowa City, City of the Book. Award. Her forthcoming Lorna Goodison is Jamai- book is Negative Space (2018). ca’s official Poet Laureate, Hilary Kaplan is the Mike Lankford is a grad- becoming the first Jamaican translator of Rilke Shake by uate of the Iowa Writers’ Okky Madasari is a woman appointed to the Angélica Freitas, winner of Workshop and the author of novelist from Indonesia. She post. Her collection I Am the 2016 Best Translated Life in Double Time: Confessions is is the founder and director Becoming My Mother won the Book Award in poetry and of an American Drummer. His of the ASEAN Literary Commonwealth Writers shortlisted for the PEN most recent novel, Becoming Festival. In 2012, her novel Prize for the Americas re- Award for Poetry in Transla- Leonardo, was published in The Outcast, about an Islamic gion (1986) while Oracabessa tion; and Ghosts, a collection of March 2017 by Melville sect facing persecution earned the OCM Bocas stories by Paloma Vidal. House. by mainstream religion, Prize for poetry in 2014. received the Khatulistiwa Lisa Katz is the editor of Jon K. Lauck is an adjunct Literary Award. (IWP). Garth Greenwell lives in the Israeli pages of the Poet- professor of history and Iowa City and is the author ry International Rotterdam political science at the Christopher Merrill has of What Belongs to You, which web site for world poetry. University of South Dakota published six collections of won the British Book Award Her translations include and hosts the “Heartland poetry, including Brilliant for Debut of the Year Late Beauty: a bilingual selection History” podcast. His new- Water, and Watch Fire, for and was longlisted for the of the poetry of Tuvia Ruebner est book is From Warm Center which he received the Lavan National Book Award. His (2017) and Suddenly the Sight to Ragged Edge: The Erosion of Younger Poets Award from short fiction has appeared of War: nationalism and violence in The Paris Review, A Public in Hebrew poetry of the 1940s Space, and VICE. by Hannan Hever (2016).

Barbara Hall is a former Anne Kennedy is a fiction editor at Better Homes and writer, screenwriter and poet Gardens magazine and other from . She publications of Meredith received the 2013 New Zea- Corporation, she has also land Post Book Award for worked in newspaper, adver- Poetry for The Darling North; tising and public relations. in 2014 her novel The Last Her book, Women and the Days of the National Costume Land, is out now from Ice was a finalist for the New Cube Press. Zealand Post Book Award and was longlisted for the Justine Johnson Hem- IMPAC-Dublin Award. mestad is the author of (IWP) Truth Be Told, a novella set in the era of knights and Jon Kerstetter served as chivalry. Hemmestad’s most a combat physician and of- recent novel, Visions of a ficer for three tours in Iraq. Dream, details Alexander the His writing, mostly nonfic- Great’s military conquests tion with a dash of poetry, Jon Kerstetter

iowacitybookfestival.org 13 Featured Authors the Academy of American Tim Parks is associate currently hails from coastal the editor-in-chief of Esquire Poets. His latest book is a professor of Literature , yet she has spent Kazakhstan, the editor of the collaboration with Ed Fol- and Translation at IULM significant stretches of time Polish diaspora magazine som about Walt Whitman’s University in . The surrounded by wheat, corn Ałmatyński Kurier Polonijny, “Song of Myself.” essay collection Life and and cows in the prairie lands and the author of five vol- Work: Writers, Readers, and the of Saskatchewan and Iowa. umes of prose and poetry. Sadek Mohammed is Conversations Between Them (IWP) the author of the collection and the novel In Extremis are Donald Ray Pollock is an of poetry Archaeology of his latest works. American writer born and Yaara Shehori is a fiction Scorched Cities (2013) and the raised in Ohio. The Devil All writer, poet and editor from co-editor of Flowers of Flame: Steve Paul, a longtime the Time, his first novel, was Israel. She is a literary editor Unheard Voices of Iraq (2008). writer and editor, is the published in 2011. His work at Keter Publishing House Mohammed currently is the editor of Kansas City Noir, an has appeared in Granta, Tin with a doctorate in Hebrew director of Baghdad city of anthology of contemporary House, and PEN America. literature. She has published Literature and a professor short fiction. His book Hem- His newest novel is The many works of fiction, po- of modern poetry in the ingway at Eighteen: The Pivotal Heavenly Table. etry, and nonfiction—most University of Mustansiriya Year That Launched an American recently the novel [Aquari- in Baghdad. Legend will be published by Julie Russell-Steuart um] (2016). (IWP) Chicago Review Press in publishes letterpress books Peter Nazareth is Profes- October. of poetry, artist’s books, Daniel Simon is a publish- sor of English and Advisor prints, and stationery under er, poet and translator. He is to the International Writing Jim Perlman is an editor, the imprint Caveworks the editor in chief of World Program. He teaches and publisher, and founder of Press. Her artist’s books are Literature Today. His newest has written about African, Holy Cow! Press. He has collected privately and by book of poems, After Reading Caribbean, African-Amer- published over 125 titles several University libraries, Everything, was just released ican, Goan, and other and co-edited and published including The University of by Eyewear Publishing. literatures, as well as Elvis several literary anthologies Iowa, Texas State University as Anthology, for which he including Walt Whitman: The and the Lucille Little Fine Whitney Terrell is an has received a great deal of Measure of His Song (1981, Arts Library at the Universi- assistant professor of media attention. rev ed. 1998) with Ed Fol- ty of Kentucky. English at the University of som and Dan Campion. Missouri-Kansas City. His Pola Oloixarac is a fiction Jeffrey Ryan is an author, novel, The Good Lieutenant, writer and essayist. Her Poon Yiu Ming is an essay- speaker, and photographer was selected as a best book novels, Savage Theories and ist and publisher in Hong born and raised in Maine. of 2016 by The Washington Dark Constellations, have been Kong. He was a 1983 IWP Ryan began long distance Post, The Boston Globe, and translated into seven lan- resident and is currently the hiking in 1983, a hobby that Refinery 29. guages. Oloixarac’s writing Chief Editor of Ming Pao led him to write Appalachian has appeared in n+1, The Monthly. Odyssey: A 28-Year Hike on John Ira Thomas is the White Review, the New York America’s Trail. author of over twenty books, Times, and Granta. Sarah Prineas lives in the including the award-winning midst of the corn in rural Steve Semken founded graphic novel MAN IS VOX: Yvonne Adhiambo Ow- Iowa, where she wrangles the Ice Cube Press in 1993 Barracudae (2015 Indiefab uor is a Kenyan writer, who dogs, cats, chickens, and as a way to use the literary Silver Medal in Graphic was named “Woman of goats, goes on lots of hikes, arts to better learn how to Novels) from Candle Light the Year” by Eve Magazine and finds time to write. She best live in the Midwest. Press. His newest book is MAN in Kenya in 2004 for her is also the author of Ash Since then he has published IS VOX: Paingels (Expanded contribution to the country’s & Bramble, a retelling of the work of hundreds of Edition). literature and arts. Her most Cinderella. authors of both regional recent book Dust won the and national acclaim. Jeremy Tiang is the author Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Jennifer Pritchard is of State of Emergency Literature. a mom, a bhakti yogi, Yuriy Serebriansky is a (2017, finalist for the 2016 visual artist, sanskrit kirtan fiction writer and journalist Epigram Books Fiction songstress and poet. She from Kazakhstan. He is is Prize) and It Never Rains

14 iowacitybookfestival.org on National Day (2015, Award and X Llanes of shortlisted for the 2016 Sin- Travelers Award, writes gapore Literature Prize). novels, short stories, poetry and nonfiction. His works Antoinette Tidjani Alou have been translated to En- is a fiction writer, poet, glish, French, Turkish, and translator and scholar from Bulgarian. The nonfiction Niger. She teaches literature book América (2017) is his and directs the Program of latest work. Performing Arts at Abdou Moumouni University in Xavier Villanova is a Niamey. playwright, screenwriter, stage director, actor and Zachary Turpin was translator from Mexico. He a doctoral candidate in has had his work staged in English at the University of Mexico, the U.S., and Ven- Houston when in 2016 he ezuela; in 2011, the Lark discovered the sole surviving Play Development Center copy of Life and Adventures of in New York workshopped Jack Engle. The novel, a rol- his Acheron: The River licking story of orphanhood, of Tragedy. Ocean Blues, Pola Oloixarac avarice, and adventure in co-written by him and based New York City, was written on his eponymous play, is on by Walt Whitman. Netflix. wellRED: From Dixie of the human experience. With Love Trae Crowder The Iowa Writers’ House Anja Utler was a 2014 Jacquelyn Vincenta grad- (The Liberal Redneck), started as Wilson’s dream to International Writing Pro- uated from the University Drew Morgan and Corey create a springboard for all gram resident. Her poetry of Iowa with a degree in Ryan Forrester are stand- of those involved in using collection münden – entzüngeln English Literature with up comedy and writing art and literature to connect won the coveted “Leonce- Honors in Creative Writing, partners. The trio has been with themselves the world. und-Lena-Preis” for Poetry and has made language the touring nationally to sold in 2003. For her innovative center of her career ever out clubs and theatres in G. Willow Wilson is poetic exploration of polit- since then. Her book, The support of their best-sell- the author of the Hugo ical issues such as ecology Lake and the Lost Girl was ing book, Liberal Redneck Award-winning comic book in her latest book ausgeübt. released in 2017. Manifesto: Draggin Dixie Outta series Ms Marvel for Marvel Eine Kurskorrektur, she was the Dark. comics. Her debut novel, awarded with the “Basler Daniel Wallace is an Iowa Alif the Unseen (2012), won Lyrikpreis” in 2014. City native who is a comic Kenneth Whyte resides the World Fantasy Award book expert, sci-fi sage, in and is chairman for Best Novel and was a Inara Verzemnieks teach- and lifelong geek. Author of the Donner Cana- finalist for the Center for es creative nonfiction at the or co-author of more than da Foundation. He was Fiction’s First Novel Prize. University of Iowa. She has two dozen books including formerly editor in chief of won a Pushcart Prize and a The Jedi Path, Ghostbusters: Maclean’s magazine. Whyte Ya Hsien is the penname Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award, The Ultimate Visual History, has written the definitive of Wang Ching-Lin (Wang and has been a finalist for and best- biography of President Qinglin). he was active the Pulitzer Prize in feature selling Star Wars: The New Herbert Hoover, Hoover: An in Taiwan’s Modernist writing. She lives in Iowa Essential Guide to Characters, Extraordinary Life in Extraordi- Movement in the 1950s and City, Iowa. Her most recent his specialty is exploring the nary Times (2017). 1960s. He is best known book is Among the Living and underpinnings of popular for a single collection of the Dead. fictional universes. Andrea Wilson, founder poetry titled Abyss, published of the Iowa Writers’ House, in 1968, and an expanded Manuel Vilas, winner of believes that creativity and edition in 1971. the 2015 Letters of Aragon expression define the beauty

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ICPL ROOM A Ted Genoways/ Inara Verzemnienks Nathan Englander Mike Lankford/Steve Jon K. Lauck Kathryn Gamble with Chris Adrian Paul 123 S Linn St. and Barbara Hall

PRAIRIE LIGHTS Zachary Turpin/ Donald Ray Pollock Jon Kerstetter Will Bardenwerper Lori Erickson Ed Folsom and 15 S Dubuque St. Christopher Merrill

RADInc. Jennifer Colville, Manuel Vilas Julia Fierro Whitney Terrell Melissa Fraterrigo Francesca Abbate and Jacquelyn 123 E Washington St. and Jennifer Vincenta Pritchard/ UPSTAIRS: Deconstructing Picture Books with Sarah Prineas and Michelle Edwards

Panel: Publishing Panel: A Sense Panel: Writing as Panel: Who Do You Panel: Politics: MASONIC BUILDING Now: Verzemnieks, of Place: Baker, Recovery: Fraterrigo, Read?: Pollock, Cooper, Englander, Fierro, Wilson, Vincenta, Terrell, Lankford, Erickson, Fujino Yuriy Serebriansky, 312 E College St. Semken Bardenwerper, Antoinette Tidjani Kaori, Enza Garcia Ramsha Ashraf, Audrey Chin, Anne Alou, Xavier Arreaza, Yaara Okky Madasari Kennedy Villanova Shehori

FILMSCENE Larry Baker and Daniel Wallace Loren W. Cooper 118 E College St.

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