Iowa City Unesco City of Literature Presents
OCTOBER 4-9, 2016 IOWACITYBOOKFESTIVAL.ORG IOWA CITY UNESCO CITY OF LITERATURE PRESENTS
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“The Man Who Planted Trees” Oct. 2, 2 p.m.; Oct. 5, 6:30 p.m., and Oct. 6, 4 p.m. A family friendly play presented by Hancher Auditorium Oct. 4-9 in partnership with the Book Festival. This production of the Puppet State Theatre 2016 Company of Scotland is based on the book by Jean Giono. Walk the countryside with a man STAFF Welcome to Iowa City, the third UNESCO City and his dog, changing the world with every Executive Director of Literature, and one of 20 in the world. The step in a heartwarming performance that offers John Kenyon Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature organization delights for the entire family. Tickets at hancher. is proud to offer you six days of literary programing as uiowa.edu/tickets Director of part of the 2016 Iowa City Book Festival. Operations An Evening with Rick Riordan, 7 p.m., Friday, Rachael Carlson UNESCO conferred the City of Literature Englert Theatre SOLD OUT Rick Riordan, the designation on Iowa City in 2008. We are joined by New York Times best-selling author of Percy Program Design: Edinburgh, Scotland; Melbourne, Australia; Dublin, Jackson and the Olympians, presents The Hammer Little Village Ireland; Reykjavik, Iceland; Norwich, England; of Thor the second book in the Magnus Chase Krakow, Poland; Heidelberg, Germany; Prague, and the Gods of Asgard trilogy, which is based on Czech Republic; Dunedin, Australia; Granada, Spain; Norse mythology. Co-presented by Prairie Lights Baghdad, Iraq; Barcelona, Spain; Ljubljana, Slovenia; Books. Lviv, Ukraine; Montevideo, Uruguay; Nottingham, This project paid United Kingdom; Obidos, Portugal; Tartu, Estonia; Don Quixote Redraw/ Redibujar Don for in part by the and Ulyanovsk, Russia as a City of Literature. Quijote, 10 a.m.-noon Saturday, Meeting Room Iowa Tourism Office D, Iowa City Public Library Children will have Iowa City is a City of Literature for many reasons: the opportunity to enjoy a creative bilingual The word-renowned writing programs at the experience learning and drawing Don Quixote University of Iowa, including the Writers’ Workshop and International and many other characters of Cervantes Writing Program, our small presses and magazines, our wonderful libraries, masterpiece. With Prof. Denise Filios, Prof/ our bookstores, and amenities like the Iowa Avenue Literary Walk. While you Writer Ana Merino and MFA students of the are here, we encourage you to explore all of this and more, to fully immerse UI Spanish Creative Writing Program. yourself in our rich literary culture. IYWP Prompted: A Parade of Creative Many people worked to make this year’s festival a reality. They are: Anna Writing Activities, 11 a.m.-noon, Saturday, Barker, Natasa Durovicova, Hugh Ferrer, Kathleen Johnson, Matthew Lage, Weatherdance Fountain Stage, Downtown Kathleen Maris, Jason Paulios, Andre Perry, Matt Steele, Joe Tiefenthaler, Jan Pedestrian Mall. We will get our writing muscles Weissmiller. fired up with a series of creative exercises, games, and activities guaranteed to spark even THANK YOU: Simon Andrew, Maeve Clark, Susan Craig, Ina Loewenberg, Tori the most reluctant imagination. Come on down Morgensai, Sarah Shonrock, Mara Cole, Beth Fisher, the Iowa City Public Library, to perfect your poetry, finesse your fiction, Prairie Lights, Iowa Book, University Book Store, Old Capitol, Michelle Buhman, enhance your essay––inspiration awaits! Ages Iowa City Senior Center, FilmScene, the Englert Theatre, the International Writing 9-14 only. Register at iowacitybookfestigval.org/ Program, M.C. Ginsberg, Coralville Public Library, Alison Ames Galstad, University workshops. of Iowa Pentacrest Museums, Kathleen Johnson, University of Iowa Center for Human Rights, Joan Nashelsky, Aron Aji, Lisa Schlesinger, United Way of Crystal Chan reads from Bird 11:30 a.m., Johnson County, Trinity Ray and the Tuesday Agency, Jane Dohrmann, Iowa City Saturday, Iowa City Public Library Teen Room Hospice, The Obermann Center, Jason Lewis, The University of Iowa Office for Crystal Chan reads from and discusses her Sustainability, Matt Steele, Jordan Sellergren, Little Village, The Haunted Bookshop, middle grade book Bird, which tells the story of Iowa Writers’ House, Hancher Auditorium. twelve-year old Jewel, who is dealing with being part of a mixed-race family in her rural Iowan town. 2 iowacitybookfestival.org All events are free and open to the public. Events subject to change. For the most complete schedule, please visit iowacitybookfestival.org
Recovering the Classics Iowa City Public Library The Iowa City Public Tuesday, Oct. 4 Library is participating in Recovering the Classics, a national campaign to give new book covers to classic The titles in the public domain. During the Book Festival and beyond, ICPL Conversation: will exhibit 50 artist-designed covers from the national collection, as well A Revolutionary Plan for as covers created by members of our community. This year’s Art Purchase End-of Life Care Prize contest is also book-cover Tuesday, Oct. 4, 6:30 – 7:30 p.m., Coralville Center for themed, and winning entries will be the Performing Arts, FREE. included in the exhibit.
presentation by Dr. Angelo E. Volandes, Public A a physician and noted expert on Advance Reading of Care Planning. This free community program is Crime and presented by Honoring Your Wishes, an initiative Punishment of Iowa City Hospice. by Fyodor Dostoevsky Register for this free program at www. Tuesday, Oct. 4 medicine.uiowa.edu/community. and Wednesday, If you have questions or require an accommodation in order Oct. 5, 9 a.m.- 9 to participate in this program, contact Jane Dohrmann by p.m.; Thursday, e-mail at [email protected] or call Judy Oct. 6, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. or until finished. at Iowa City Hospice at (319) 688-4213. Old Capitol Museum East Entrance (Old Capitol Museum Supreme Court Chamber in inclement weather or during construction work). Take Wednesday, Oct. 5 part in this Book Festival tradition! Sign up for a 20-minute reading slot by the main entrance to Phillips Hall between Sept. Michelle Hoover: 20 and Oct. 2 or email Anna Barker at [email protected]. Bottomland Wednesday, Oct. 5, 7 p.m., Meeting Room A of the “The Man Who Planted Trees” Iowa City Public Library. Oct. 2, 2 p.m.; Oct. 5, 6:30 p.m., and Oct. 6, 4 p.m. A family friendly play ichelle Hoover, an Iowa native and author presented by Hancher Auditorium in Mof the novel The Quickening, returns with partnership with the Book Festival. Bottomland, a novel that tells the story of the Hess This production of the Puppet State family as it deals with anti-German sentiment in Theatre Company of Scotland is rural Iowa in the years following World War I. based on the book by Jean Giono. Walk the countryside with a man Presented in conjunction with the Obermann Center’s and his dog, changing the world German Iowa and the Global Midwest symposium. with every step in a heartwarming performance that offers delights for the entire family. Tickets at hancher. uiowa.edu/tickets
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Andrea Wulf: The Invention of Nature 12 p.m., Old Capitol Senate Chamber Andrea Wulf, author of the book The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humbolt’s New World, will discuss the book. Presented by the University of Iowa Office of Sustainability.
The Fail Safe Podcast with Roxane Gay 1 – 2 p.m., Clinton Street Social Club. The Fail Safe podcast explores how today’s most successful writers grapple with and learn from Paul Engle Prize Presentation: creative failure. Produced collaboratively by draft: the Roxane Gay journal of process and The Iowa Writers’ House. The podcast with alea adigweme 7 p.m., Coralville Public Library, FREE will be taped live.
Crime and Punishment at oxane Gay has been named the fifth recipient of the Paul Engle Prize, presented 150: Dostoevsky’s Notions of Rby the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature organization. The prize, Criminality and Redemption established in 2011, honors an individual who, like Paul Engle, represents a pioneering for 21st Century Readers 2 – spirit in the world of literature through writing, editing, publishing, or teaching, 3 p.m., Meeting Room A. 2016 and whose active participation in the larger issues of the day has contributed to the marks the 150th anniversary betterment of the world through the literary arts. of the publication of Crime Gay will receive the prize, which includes a one-of-a-kind work of art and $10,000, and Punishment. The panel during a special ceremony as part of the Iowa City Book Festival. Gay will be will examine the history interviewed by Iowa City writer alea adigweme during the event. of the novel’s creation and Gay has emerged as one of the strongest voices in American letters in her various publication, the theological roles as a writer, professor, editor and commentator. She is the author of the short and humanist foundations of story collection Ayiti, the novel An Untamed State, and the essay collection Bad Feminist. the novel, and Dostoevsky’s Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best influence on 21st century American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, writers and narratives. With Oxford American, American Short Fiction, West Branch, Virginia Quarterly Review, NOON, Anna Barker, Daniel Boscaljon The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Time, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The and Christopher Merrill. Rumpus, Salon, and many others.
The Paul Engle Prize is sponsored by the City of Coralville.
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Panel: Writing and Politics 12 p.m., Social Hall, Robert A. Lee Recreation Center. In this hot electoral fall, writers participating in the 2016 International Writing Program discuss how their political landscape affects their work. With Odeh Bisharat, Obari Gomba, Akhil Katyal, Yusi Avianto Pareanom, Carlos Patiño Pereda.
Freeman’s family issue launch with John Freeman and Aleksandar Hemon 5 p.m., Prairie Lights. Join Freeman’s founder John Freeman as he unveils the second issue of his new literary journal. Freeman will be joined by Aleksandar Hemon, who will read from and discuss his contribution to the journal.
John Ira Thomas reads from TIRE, June 2000 5 p.m. Daydreams Comics John Ira Thomas will be reading from his reality- bending new work, TIRE, June 2000, as well as Man Is Vox: Barracudae, the 2015 Indiefab Silver Award Winner for Graphic Novels (with artist Carter Allen).
The Open Courtyard: Possibilities of the Personal, a presentation An Evening with: by Leslie Jamison 6 p.m., Hotel Vetro Rick Riordan Ballroom Personal 7 p.m., Englert Theatre, SOLD OUT writing gets accused of being many things: solipsistic, narcissistic, ick Riordan, the New York Times best- claustrophobic, apolitical, Rselling author of Percy Jackson and the sentimental, self-serving, Olympians, presents The Hammer of Thor the or all of the above. In this talk, Iowa Writers’ second book in the Magnus Chase and the Workshop graduate Leslie Jamison, author of Gods of Asgard trilogy, which is based on The Empathy Exams, will think about how personal Norse mythology. Co-presented by Prairie writing can move beyond the parameters and Lights Books. particulars of an individual life in order to seek broader resonances. (Part of The Examined Life Advance tickets required. conference, free and open to the public).
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Book Fair 10 a.m.- 4 p.m., Downtown Pedestrian Mall (see vendor list, p. 8)
Reading Aloud 10 a.m., Robert A. Lee Recreation Center Social Hall. This Senior Center-based group will read poems from Patricia Smith’s Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah. Smith locates the Great Migration of African-Americans from the South to Chicago in her parents’ own story of love and struggle, and gives us the details of her girlhood in that city in a bold and musical voice.
Indie Author Day live stream Photo by Maggie Campbell panel discussion 1 p.m. Iowa City Public Library Meeting Room Free Workshops D Join industry leaders as they offer guidance and insight to local To register for workshops, please visit iowacitybookfestival.org/workshops writers.
Iphigenia: Fragments from an Simple Artist’s Book Structures 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., Iowa City Public Library Meeting Excavation, a staged reading 7 Room E. A whirlwind introduction to several book structures (including pamphlet, p.m., Old Capitol Senate Chambers. accordion, and lotus) that can be used to make artist’s books. Iphigenia: A girl, a myth, a sacrifice to the Gods of War? Don Quixote Redraw/ Redibujar Don Quijote, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., Meeting Room Or the first refugee, according D, Iowa City Public Library Children will have the opportunity to enjoy a creative to the ancients, a fate worse bilingual experience learning and drawing Don Quixote and many other characters than death? In her TEDx talk, of Cervantes masterpiece. With Prof. Denise Filios, Prof/Writer Ana Merino and Iphigenia’s mother Clytemnestra MFA students of the UI Spanish Creative Writing Program. addresses these questions and more. Iphigenia: Fragments from an IYWP Prompted: A Parade of Creative Writing Activities, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m., Excavation is a film/theatre/music Weatherdance Fountain Stage, Downtown Pedestrian Mall. We will get our writing performance in progress, adapted muscles fired up with a series of creative exercises, games, and activities guaranteed from Euripdes’ Iphigenia plays. to spark even the most reluctant imagination. Come on down to perfect your poetry, It is a response to the refugee finesse your fiction, enhance your essay–inspiration awaits! Ages 9-14 only. crisis as seen through the lens of the Iphigenia myth and part of a Word Portraits: Getting to Character through Rhythm and Point of View, multi-year collaboration between 1-2 p.m., Weatherdance Fountain Stage, Downtown Pedestrian Mall. Together, we’ll filmmaker Irina Patkanian and look at how Picasso’s vision intersected with and inspired Gertrude Stein’s Word writer Lisa Schlesinger. This Portraits, and we will compose a word portrait of our own. With Prompt Press and staged reading is directed by Free Generative Workshops. Nina Morrison. Sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for Japanese Stab Binding, 2 – 3 p.m., Weatherdance Fountain Stage, Downtown Human Rights, the UI Theatre Pedestrian Mall. Artist Julie Russell Steuart of Caveworks Press & Studios will lead Arts Department and the UI MFA a hands-on bookbinding workshop. Learn how to make your own book with this in Translation. ancient technique. Materials provided.
6 iowacitybookfestival.org Panels For times & locations see map on pages 8–9. Events subject to change. For the most complete schedule, Please visit www.iowacitybookfestival.org. See schedule on p. 8 for panel participants
Sense of Place. I: 10 a.m., as why engage in publishing. Writing with Your Thumbs. a young Jewish immigrant Council Chambers Place and Moderator: Andrea Wilson, 1 p.m., Recreation Center In this shot by the Chicago chief of setting are key in many kinds Iowa Writers’ House. Panelists: day and age, the most widely police George Shippy in 1908. of writing. How do you convey Steve Semken, Ice Cube shared format of writing— Almost 100 years later a writer a sense of place or paint a Press, LLC; Danny Katatschi, texting, blogging, posting, and a photographer go back unique landscape? In what Rescue Press; Allison Means, tweeting—is ephemeral, to where Lazarus came from, ways does location contribute University of Iowa Press; short-lived, voice-like. attempting to understand the to your writing? Can a literary Genevieve Trainor, Little Where and how does this places he left behind. Hear work truly be ‘universal,’ or Village. textual compression show about their journeys, the will place always determine up in “literature”? In your photographs, the story and how a piece is understood? Writing as Recovery. 11:30 own work? How does the how it all came together for p.m., FilmScene Isn’t most preponderance of outlets for this National Book Award Beyond Realism: 10 a.m., writing fundamentally free writing impact your ability finalist novel. FilmScene Constraints of grounded in pain, trauma, to be paid for your work? realism can be, and in many loss? How does one write Industrial-strength places are being, shed. How through such profound Who do you Read? 1 p.m., Literature. 4 p.m., Recreation do sur-realisms manifest experiences in a meaningful Council Chambers What Center The Anglophone in today’s art, language, way, and does writing authors do you love to literary field is unique in technology? What can they tell ultimately release this trauma? read, in your own or other the hefty scaffolding that us about dreams, alternative literatures? Has one writer surrounds publication. From states of mind, and altered Pics or it didn’t happen. 11:30 or one particular text been being workshopped in an takes on reality? And can such a.m., Council Chambers The the igniting experience that MFA program through an surreal gestures become tools, true privilege of today’s world opened up the path of writing agent’s approval followed by become useful? is “the right to be forgotten.” for you? an editor’s detailed input, What then has become of the all the way to the marketing Fracture: 10 a.m., Old Capitol earlier centuries’ struggles for Sense of Place. II: 2:30 p.m., department’s ministrations, A discussion of the Ice Cube transparency, public access, Recreation Center. some great writing gets Press anthology that tackles information without limits: has published with the help of the issue of fracking from our wish been granted? And Binaries on the run. 2:30 a lot of infrastructure. How many angles. Learn about how can fiction contend with, p.m., Council Chambers From does the writing-to-publishing writing, about writing and respond to, work through, boy-meets-girl to trans/bi-/ trajectory work in other social justice, the power of this glut of data, images, inter-/cis-/same/: does the literary cultures? What are words and the art of writing. information? How can we burgeoning sexual landscape the advantages, drawbacks, With Steve Semken, Carolyn digest and react to the events figure in your writing? Is consequences? How do these Raffensperger, Rachel of our time when commentary this rainbow-colored gender differences shape the currents Morgan, and Angie Carter. is instantaneous? spectrum above all a plot of the world’s literatures? advantage? Does it cast the Publishing in Iowa: Shakespeare, that Global world in a whole new light? Indie Authors: 4 p.m., Regional Opportunities for Brand. 11:30 a.m., Room 202 Or is it one culture’s special Council Chambers A panel of Writers. 11:30 a.m. Old Capitol Senior Center A writer whose privilege? Iowa’s leading independent Join us for a panel focusing works have been considered authors discuss their paths to on the regional publishing the Anglophone world’s The Lazarus Project: 2:30 success including overcoming opportunities from indie epitome of linguistic and p.m. Iowa City Public Library obstacles and methodologies and small presses, academic literary accomplishment for Aleksandar Hemon and for finding their audience in presses, journals, and lit mags, close to a half-millennium. Velibor Bozovic discuss their today’s fragmented media from those bringing works In this 400th hundred collaboration on Hemon’s landscape. Moderator: to the forefront across the anniversary year of his death, award-winning novel, The Andrea Wilson, with Erik Midwest. A discussion with who holds on to him, where, Lazarus Project. Hemon’s Therme, Eliza David, Craig time for questions on what we how--and why? novel deals with the real-life Hart, Rachel Aukes, Joseph look for, what to expect, as well death of Lazarus Averbuch, Dobrian.
iowacitybookfestival.org 7 A ICPL Meeting Room A E Senior Center Assembly Room H Old Capitol Senate Chambers (28 S. Linn St.) (21 N. Capitol St.) 10 a.m. Dan Barry, Boys in the Bunkhouse James Brooks, Mesa of Sorrows: A History of 10 a.m. Julie Rubini, Missing Millie Benson 10 a.m. Fracture discussion––Steve the Awat’ovi Massacre Tom Shroder, The Most Famous Writer Who Semken, Carolyn Raffensperger, 11:30 a.m. Robert Olen Butler, Perfume River Ever Lived Rachel Morgan, and Angie Carter 1 p.m. Leonard Pitts, Jr., Grant Park 11:30 a.m. F. Paul Wilson, Panacea 11:30 a.m. Panel: Publishing in Iowa–– 2:30 p.m. Aleksandar Hemon with Velibor 1 p.m. Allen Eskens, The Heavens May Fall Steve Semken, Danny Khalastchi, Božović, The Lazarus Project Donald Harstad, November Rain Allison Means, Genevieve Trainor 4 p.m. Claire Hoffman, Greetings From Utopia 2:30 p.m. John Domini, Movieola! 7 p.m. Iphigenia: Fragments from an Park: Surviving a Transcendent Childhood Kali VanBaale, The Good Divide Excavation, a staged reading 4 p.m. Hilary Plum, Watchfires B ICPL Teen Room (second floor) Rachel Corbett, You Must Change Your Life I FilmScene (118 E. College St.)
11:30 a.m. Crystal Chan, Bird F Senior Center Room 202 10 a.m. Panel: Beyond Realism––John (28 S. Linn St.) Domini, Hensli Rahn Solorzano, C Prairie Lights Bookstore Tatiana Troitskaya, Christine 10 a.m. Ray Hendrickson, Yarns With Ray Yohannes 10 a.m. Robert Oldshue, November Storm 11:30 a.m. Panel: Shakespeare, the Global 11:30 a.m. Panel: Writing as Allegra Hyde, Of This New World Brand Recovery––Wasi Ahmed, zp 11:30 a.m. Jennifer L. Knox, Days of Shame 1 p.m. Adam Hooks and Emily Martin on Dala, Mortada Gzar, Julie Rubini, and Failure / Ryan Collins, A New American Shakespeare and art books Stephanos Stephanides Field Guide & Song Book 2:30 p.m. Catherine Stewart, Long Past 1 p.m. Nathan Hill, The Nix Slavery Vendor List Alexander Maksik, Shelter in Place 4 p.m. Lynne Nugent and Kati Standefer 2:30 p.m. Okey Ndibe, Never Look An read Best American Essays selections Candle Light Press • Caveworks American in the Eye Press & Studios • Free Generative 4 p.m. Tom Lutz, And the Monkey Learned G City Hall Council Chambers Writing Workshops • IC Press Co-op Nothing / Marc Nieson, Schoolhouse: Lessons (410 E. Washington St.) • Ice Cube Press • Indie Quill • The on Love & Landscape Iowan • The Iowa Review • Iowa 10 a.m. Panel: A Sense of Place II––Allen Writers’ House • Iowa Youth Writing D Rec Center (220 S. Gilbert St.) Eskens, Courtney Sina Meredith, Virginia Project • Mindbridge Foundation Suk-yin Ng, Marc Nieson, Ukamaka • North American Review • 10 a.m. READING ALOUD: will read Olisakwe PromptPress • Rex Imperator • poems from Patricia Smith’s Shoulda Been 11:30 a.m. Panel: Pics or it Didn’t University of Iowa Press • Usborne Jimi Savannah Happen––Khaled Alkhamissi, Anais Books and More • Julie Burns, 11:30 a.m. Irish Poet Nell Regan will be Duplan, Ruel Johnson, Hilary Plum, author of The Purse • Eliza David, joined by two fellow poets featured in Poetry Jianing Zhou author of Savage • Ricky Dragoni, Ireland Review’s “The Rising Generation” 1 p.m. Panel: Who Do You Read?–– author of Ripples • Helen Horn and issue. Mariano Tenconi Blanco, James Brooks, Marie Jackson, authors of Criss Cross 1 p.m. Panel: Writing With Your Thumbs–– Galit Dahan Carlibach, Vivek Shanbhag, Love • Dr. Robert Owens, author Mara Genschel, Allegra Hyde, Tomoka Alice S. Yousef of America’s Trojan War • Alice M. Shibasaki, Kali VanBaale 2:30 p.m. Panel: Binaries on the Run––Ko Phillips, author of The Eighth Day 2:30 p.m. Panel: Sense of Place I––Ryan Hua Chen, Alexander Maksik Brotherhood • Melvin Rivers, author Collins, Jennifer L. Knox, Amanah 4 p.m. Panel: Indie Authors––Andrea of The Blairfield Caller • Deb Schense, Musatafi, Shenaz Patel, Henriikka Tavi Wilson, with Erik Therme, Eliza David, author of Extended Vacation: Home 4 p.m. Panel: Industrial-strength Craig Hart, Rachel Aukes, Joseph Never Looked So Good • B.C. Tweedt, Literature–Eros S. Atalia, Vladimir Dobrian. author of the Greyson Gray Books Poleganov, Legodile “Dredd X” Seganabeng, Hao Guang Tse
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Historical Literary Walking Tour in North 10 – 11:15 a.m. Meet at the Emma Harvat House, 332 E. Davenport St. We’ll stop at the Korea: legendary Vonnegut house, the Haunted Bookshop, Dave’s Foxhead Tavern, Suki Kim the Emma Harvat library, and more. Presented by the Iowa Writers’ House. discusses her
Rescue Press reading 11:30 a.m. at RSVP book, Without 140 N Linn St. Rescue Press and RSVP present: Poetry and Mimosas. You, There is No Us 2 p.m., C20 Pomerantz Center Open House at the Iowa Writers’ House 12 – 1:30 p.m., 332 E. Davenport St. Visit the home of the Iowa Writers’ House, uki Kim, a novelist, essayist, investigative journalist literary B&B and regional writers’ support Sand the only writer ever to go live undercover in organization with year-round workshops North Korea to investigate and write a book from the & events available to the public for inside, will discuss that New York Times bestselling book registration at www.iowawritershouse.org. of investigative literary nonfiction, Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korean Elite, the Little Village Roast of Iowa City 2016 selection of the University of Iowa Center for 4 p.m., Trumpet Blossom. Human Rights One Community, One Book program.
Featured Authors in the Philippines. A recipient air readings of classic works of numerous awards for his such as Anna Karenina, Peter Pan, Participants in the University of Iowa’s International Writing essays, poems, and fiction, he and Don Quixote. This fall’s Program are noted with (IWP). has had a short story, “Si Intoy public reading will celebrate Syokoy ng Kalye Marino,” the 150th anniversary of Crime and the novel Ligo na u, lapit na and Punishment. alea adigweme is a writer, Khaled Al Khamissi is the me adapted to film. (IWP) artist, and educator based in Egyptian founder and presi- Dan Barry writes the “This Iowa City. She earned an dent of the Quena storytelling Rachel Aukes is the Land” column for the New York MFA in Nonfiction Writing festival and the Mansoura award-winning author of 100 Times. His latest book is The from the University of Iowa, literary festival. His 2007 Days in Deadland, which made Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude where she’s currently a doctor- collection Taxi: Cabbie Talk Suspense Magazine’s Best of the and Salvation in the Heartland. al student in Media Studies. has been translated into 21 Year list. Her latest release is tells the harrowing yet uplifting languages, including English; Fringe Station. story of the exploitation and Wasi Ahmed is a fiction writ- his novel Noah’s Ark appeared abuse of a resilient group of er from Bangladesh. He has in 2009, and was followed, in Anna Barker is an adjunct men in Eastern Iowa with published several collections 2014, by the non-fiction 2011. assistant professor of Russian intellectual disability, and the of stories and four novels, (IWP) and Comparative Literature heroic efforts of those who most recently the volume Bok who received her doctorate helped them to find justice. o Banshful (2015) and the novel Eros Atalia teaches Filipino in Comparative Literature in Tolkuthurir Gaan, which won the language, journalism, and film 2002. In recent years, she has Odeh Bisharat is an Arab-Is- 2015 Akhtaruzzaman Book of production and theory at the organized campus-community raeli newspaper columnist and the Year Award. (IWP) University of Santo Tomas literary celebrations and open- political activist. His first novel,
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The Streets of Zatunia, was trans- excellence. His latest book is associations with culture and more than 30 years’ experi- lated into Hebrew and Finnish; Mesa of Sorrows: A History of the race. ence. His new novel is Hard- the Hebrew translation of his Awat’ovi Massacre. Wired. second novel, Donia, will be Chen Ko Hua is a writer released in 2017. (IWP) Julie A. Burns is a native and artist from Taiwan. He John Domini has taught at Iowan born in Marshalltown is the author of more than Harvard, Northwestern, and Daniel Boscaljon has and raised in Davenport. After twenty volumes of poetry; and currently lives in Des doctorate degrees in Reli- her parent’s divorce at age 7, his collection Tears of Ignorance Moines. He has three stories gious Studies and English. she took to writing, whether it was recently translated into collections and three novels in Boscaljon’s interest in kindling was her diary or poems about Japanese. (IWP) print. His latest set of linked an awareness of wonder and people she met or situations stories is MOVIEOLA! awe in the everyday world, first that bothered her. Ryan Collins is the author displayed in his book Vigilant of several chapbooks, most Ricky Dragoni is the author Faith, has grown in his work Robert Olen Butler is a recently Where the Wind Bends of Prime Infinity and Ripples with the Center for Humanist teacher of creative writing at Backwards. A New American Field published by Sarah Book Pub- Inquiries and his involvement Florida State University, Pu- Guide & Song Book is his first lishing. Dragoni is originally with thesacredprofane podcast. litzer Prize-winning author of poetry collection. He runs the from Puerto Rico but he has sixteen novels, and the author Midwest Writing Center in spent half of his life in Iowa. Velibor Božović grew up in of six short-story collections. Davenport. Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Perfume River is a novel focused Anaïs Duplan is the director In 1999, he moved to Mon- on the family bond and the Jennifer Colville is the of a performance collective tréal where, for eight years, trials of living and loving in founding editor of Prompt- called The Spacesuits and of he worked as an engineer in a country torn apart by the Press, a journal for visual art The Center for Afrofuturist aerospace industry until he Vietnam War. inspired by writing and writing Studies, an artist residency chose to devote his time fully inspired by visual art. program in Iowa City. Her to image creation. He collabo- Galit Dahan-Carlibach is a latest work is Take This Stallion, rated with Aleksandar Hemon fiction writer from Israel. Her Rachel Corbett is the exec- a collection of poems. on The Lazarus Project. several books include the YA utive editor of Modern Painters. series Arpilea and two novels, Her writing has appeared in Allen Eskens is the award James F. Brooks is an The Locked Garden and On the The New Yorker, the New York winning and bestselling author interdisciplinary scholar of the Edge, which won the Prime Times, the Art Newspaper, New of The Life We Bury and The Indigenous and Colonial past Minister’s Prize for Hebrew York magazine, and others. She Guise of Another. His latest and the recipient of numerous writers. (IWP) lives in Brooklyn, New York. book, The Heavens May Fall, is a national awards for scholarly captivating mystery thriller. He Angie Carter is a sociologist, Zp Dala is a writer and is a University of Iowa alum writer, activist, and the seventh physical therapist from South and lives in Minneapolis. generation of her family to call Africa. She writes about Iowa home. Her work focuses education, autism, and South John Freeman is an on social justice and change in African-Indian history. Her award-winning writer and agricultural and environmen- first novel, What About Meera, book critic. He was the editor tal systems. She and others came out in 2015; a second of the literary magazine, founded the Bakken Pipeline novel is in the works. (IWP) Granta from 2009 to 2013 Resistance Coalition in 2014. and his writing has appeared Eliza David was born and in almost 200 publications Crystal Chan discovered a raised on the noisy South Side around the world. Freeman’s passion for public speaking, of Chicago, but now lives latest work is the second issue performing, and writing in in super quiet Iowa. She is of his new anthology, Freeman’s, her native Wisconsin. Chan a blogger for Real Moms of featuring the best new writing draws on personal experience Eastern Iowa and has self-pub- on family from writers like in her debut novel, Bird, a lished seven romance novels. Aleksandar Hemon, Claire story of deeply rooted secrets, Messud, Aminatta Forna, Tra- perplexing spirits and unlikely Joseph Dobrian is an cy K. Smith and many more. Robert Olen Butler friendship featuring strong award-winning journalist of
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Man, The Lazarus Project and Incubator program. Bottomland Zombie Wars. is her much anticipated second novel. Ray Hendrickson is best described as a wise old owl, Helen Horn was born and a gifted communicator and raised in Des Moines. She is a leader. He views life as the mother of three. She holds an opportunity to serve, make a AA degree in Criminal Justice difference. His latest book is from Kaplan University and Yarns of Ray. was awarded the “Commence- ment Speaker” position to Nathan Hill is the author of represent her graduating class. Leslie Jamison the novel, The NIX. His short fiction has appeared in many Allegra Hyde is the recipient Roxane Gay has emerged as Beautiful Cult, and is a regular literary journals, including The of a Pushcart Prize, and a no- one of the strongest voices in contributor to the Lebanese Iowa Review, AGNI, The Gettys- table mention in Best American American letters in her various newspaper al-Safir al-Arabian- burg Review, and Fiction, where Essays 2015. Her prominent roles as a writer, professor, dis. (IWP) he was awarded the annual debut, Of This New World, is a editor and commentator. She Fiction Prize. A native Iowan, collection of utopias that spot- is the author of the short story Donald Harstad is a twenty- he lives with his wife in Naples, light a unique style of prose, collection Ayiti, the novel An six-year veteran of the Clayton Florida. humor and meticulous design. Untamed State, and the essay County Sheriff’s Department collection Bad Feminist. The in northeastern Iowa, and the Claire Hoffman works as a Marie Jackson, the proud City of Literature is proud to author of the acclaimed novels magazine writer living in Los mother of Helen and Skylar, announce that Roxane Gay Eleven Days and Known Dead. Angeles, writing for national was born and raised in Des has been named the fifth recip- His latest book, November Rain magazines, covering culture, Moines. She has earned an AA ient of the Paul Engle Prize. is the most recent installment religion, celebrity, business and degree in the field of Account- in his gripping Sheriff Carl whatever else seems interesting. ing Specialist from Des Moines Mara Genschel is a poet Houseman series. Hoffman’s memoir, Greetings Area Community College. from Germany who published From Utopia Park Surviving a her first book of poems, Ton - Craig A. Hart is the stay- Transcendent Childhood is set in Leslie Jamison is the author brand Schlaf, in 2008. She now at-home father of twin boys, Fairfield. of The Gin Closet, which was works on projects involving a writer, editor, and Amazon a finalist for the Los Angeles visual and aural aspects of bestselling author. He has Adam G. Hooks is an Times First Fiction Prize. Her poetry, publishes book art, and served as editor-in-chief for Assistant Professor in the latest work, The Empathy Exams, collaborates with performance The Rusty Nail literary maga- Department of English and is a New York Times Bestseller artists. (IWP) zine, and lives in Iowa City. the Center for the Book at the and draws on Leslie’s experi- University of Iowa, where his ence as a medical actor, asking Obari Gomba is a poet and Mallory Hellman’s non- research and teaching focus questions about empathy and playwright from Nigeria. His fiction has appeared on the on Shakespeare, early modern what it means to confront pain 2013 volume Length of Eyes was Forbes Booked Blog and in the literature and culture, and as a society. longlisted for the Nigeria Prize Indiana Review, and her short the history of the book. His for Literature. The most recent story “October, Forest River” book, Selling Shakespeare, tells a Ruel Johnson is a fiction of his three poetry collections, was a finalist for the Room story centered on the people writer and poet from Guyana. Thunder Protocol, appeared Of Her Own Foundation’s who created, bought, and sold In 2002, his Ariadne & Other in 2015. He writes on issues Orlando Prize. She currently books in the early modern Stories won the Guyana Prize of class, justice, and culture. serves as Director of the Iowa period. for Literature for Best First (IWP) Youth Writing Project. Book of Fiction; the collection Michelle Hoover is the Fictions won later the same Mortada Gzar is a novelist Aleksandar Hemon is a Fannie Hurst Writer-in-Resi- award. A cultural advisor to and filmmaker from Iraq. He Bosnian-born American fiction dence at Brandeis University the government of Guyana, has three novels: Broom of Para- writer, essayist, and critic. His and teaches at GrubStreet, Johnson is involved in policy dise, Sayyid Asghar Akbar, and My best known novels are Nowhere where she leads the Novel development and implementa-
12 iowacitybookfestival.org tion. (IWP) Emily Martin has been winners selected by the Malay experience on 500 acres of making movable and/or Language Council. (IWP) Iowa woodlands and his plan Akhil Katyal is a poet and sculptural artists books since to emerge restored from the translator from India. His most the late 1970’s. Her books are Okey Ndibe first came to heartland retreat. recent collection of poetry is narrative, sometimes autobi- the U.S. to act as founding Night Charge Extra, published in ographical, and make use of editor of African Commentary, a Lynne Nugent is managing 2015. (IWP) format as a metaphor for con- magazine published by Chinua editor of The Iowa Review. Her tent. Currently she is exploring Achebe. He has taught at essays have appeared in the Daniel Khalastchi is the Shakespeare’s tragedies. Brown University, Connecticut North American Review, Brevity, author of two books of poetry, College, Simon’s Rock College, the New York Times, Full Grown directs the University of Iowa’s Allison Means is marketing Trinity College, and the Uni- People, Mutha Magazine, and Frank N. Magid Center for manager at the University of versity of Lagos (as a Fulbright Hippocampus Magazine. Undergraduate Writing, and Iowa Press. scholar). After two novels, his co-founded Rescue Press. new memoir is Never Look an Robert Oldshue practices Courtney Sina Meredith is American in the Eye. family medicine at a commu- Suki Kim is the author of the a poet, playwright and musi- nity health center in Boston. New York Times bestselling book, cian from New Zealand. She Ng Virginia Suk-yin His work has appeared in the Without You, There Is No Us, My published her award-winning writes stories, often about her Bellevue Literary Review, the Time with the Sons of North Korean play Rushing Dolls in 2012; a generation’s life in contempo- Gettysburg Review, and New Elite, which sheds a new light poetry collection, Brown Girls in rary Hong Kong. They were England Review. In his debut on North Korean society by Bright Red Lipstick, appeared the recently gathered in the col- collection of fiction, November delving into its day-to-day life same year. Her latest release is lection, People from the Mountain. Storm, Oldshue illustrates hu- and provides unprecedented Tail of the Taniwha. (IWP) (IWP) man commitment to care for insights into the psychology of one another amidst imperfect its ruling class. Christopher Merrill has Marc Nieson is a graduate of situations. published six collections of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop Jennifer L. Knox teaches at poetry, including Watch Fire, for and NYU Film School, and Ukamaka Olisakwe is a Iowa State University and is which he received the Lavan currently serves on the MFA screenwriter and novelist from the curator of the Iowa Bird of Younger Poets Award from the faculty at Chatham University, Nigeria. Selected in 2014 by Mouth project. Her new book Academy of American Poets; where he’s the fiction editor the Africa39 Project as one of poems, Days of Shame & many works of translation of The Fourth River. His of the continent’s 39 most Failure, projects the dispirited and works of non-fiction. As memoir, Schoolhouse: Lessons on promising writers under the quality of middle age. director of the University of Love and Landscape, reflects his age of 40, she has had her Iowa’s International Writing Tom Lutz is the founder Program, he has undertaken and editor in chief of the Los cultural diplomacy missions to Angeles Review of Books. His more than fifty countries. latest book, And the Monkey Learned Nothing, reports person- Rachel Morgan is a graduate al encounters in rarely visited of the Iowa Writers’ Work- spots, anecdotes from way off shop, and currently she teaches the beaten path. at the University of Northern Iowa and is the Poetry Editor Alexander Maksik is the for the North American Review. author of three novels: You De- serve Nothing; A Marker to Measure Amanah Mustafi is a Drift, which was named a New screenwriter from Singapore. York Times Notable Book and Her stories and scripts have a finalist for both the William received multiple awards; the Saroyan Prize and Le Prix du drama Kalimah Terakhir was Meilleur Livre Étranger, and anthologized in Anugerah his latest release, Shelter in Place. Persuratan 2011, a collection of Malay Literary Award Okey Ndibe
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Carolyn Raffensperger is Julie Russell-Steuart an archaeologist and lawyer. publishes letterpress books of She is the executive director poetry, artist’s books, prints, of the Science and Environ- and stationery on a vintage mental Health Network and Vandercook printing press co-founder of the Women’s under the imprint Caveworks Congress for Future Gener- Press. ations. Deb Schense lives in North Nell Regan is a poet and Liberty. She worked in com- non-fiction writer based in puters for more than twenty Dublin. She has published years before switching gears to three collections of poetry, writing and editing. She wrote most recently One Still Thing, Eastern Iowa’s Historic Barns Enitharmon Press (London, and edited another barn book, Leonard Pitts 2014). She is a past partici- Barns Around Iowa, and has edit- pant in the UI’s International ed numerous ethnic books and work appear in the New York of stories, I Will Kill You Twice. Writing Program and was cookbooks. Times. (IWP) In 2015 his Concentric Circles a Fulbright Scholar at UC won El Nacional’s 70th annual Berkeley. Legodile ‘Dredd X’ Se- Robert Owens lives on a story competition. (IWP) ganabeng is a poet, fiction berry patch in Mingo, Iowa, Rick Riordan is the author and nonfiction writer from with his wife and editor. He is Alice M. Phillips is an art of three #1 New York Times Botswana. A recipient of the a retired house painter, retired historian and museum curator best-selling middle grade Bessie Head Literature Award, pastor, a musician, composer, living in Iowa City, Iowa. She series with 45 million copies he frequently writes on human author, and college professor. is the author of The Eighth Day sold throughout the world. rights and women’s rights. His new book is America’s Trojan Brotherhood. Riordan’s forthcoming novel, (IWP) War. The Hammer of Thor, is the Leonard Pitts, Jr. is a nation- second book in the Magnus Steve Semken founded the Yusi Avianto Pareanom is ally syndicated columnist for Chase and the Gods of Asgard Ice Cube Press in 1993 as a a fiction and nonfiction writer the Miami Herald and winner trilogy. way to use the literary arts to from Indonesia and the found- of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize better learn how to best live er of the publishing house for commentary, in addition Melvin Rivers was inspired in the Midwest. Since then Penerbit Banana. He has a to many other awards. In to write horror by imitating he has published the work of novel and several collections Grant Park, Pitts takes on the the writers of his favorite hor- hundreds of authors of both of short stories, among them past four decades of US race ror comics many years ago. regional and national acclaim. The Coffee House of the Laughing relations through the stories He was born in the tiny town Lion. (IWP) of two veteran journalists, a of Luxora, Ark., and grew Vivek Shanbhag is a fiction superstar black columnist and up in Memphis, Tenn. He re- writer and playwright from In- Shenaz Patel is fiction writer his unheralded white editor. ceived a degree in journalism dia. His writing has appeared and playwright from Mauritius from the University of Iowa. in Granta, Seminar, and Indian who is best known for her Hilary Plum is co-editor He lives in Cedar Rapids. Literature; his most recent novel, 2005 novel Le silence des Chagos. of the Open Prose Series at Ghachar Ghochar, appeared in As a working journalist, she Rescue Press and serves as the Julie Rubini is the author English in 2016. (IWP) writes about social and cultural managing editor of the Journal of Hidden Ohio and Missing issues; much of her writing of the History of Ideas. Her new Millie Benson: The Secret Case of Tomoka Shibasaki is a seeks to unearth the unsaid book is Watchfires. the Nancy Drew Ghostwriter and novelist from Japan. Her novel and untold. (IWP) Journalist, which explores the Sono machi no ima wa won the Vladimir Poleganov is a alluring life of Millie Benson, MEXT Award for New Artists; Carlos Patiño Pereda is fiction writer and screenwriter the author of the first 23 books in 2014 her novella Haru no a writer, lawyer and human from Bulgaria. His most recent in the Nancy Drew mystery niwa won the Akutagawa Prize. rights activist from Venezuela. novel, The Other Dream, will series. (IWP) He has published a collection come out in 2016. (IWP)
14 iowacitybookfestival.org Tom Shroder is an and arts organizer. She is a Tse Hao Guang is a poet as a practicing physician. Two award-winning journalist, graduate of the University of from Singapore and the author secret societies battle for con- editor, and author of Old Souls Iowa Center for the Book and of hyperlinkage and Deeds of trol over the ultimate drug in and Acid Test. In The Most the Program Director at Public Light; the latter was shortlisted Wilson’s latest novel, Panacea. Famous Writer Who Ever Lived, Space One in Iowa City. for the 2016 Singapore Litera- Shroder sets out to understand ture Prize. (IWP) Andrea Wulf has written for the life of his once-famous Henriikka Tavi is a poet and New York Times, the Atlantic, the grandfather, best-selling author fiction writer from Finland. B.C. Tweedt lives in North LA Times, Wall Street Journal, the MacKinlay Kantor. She teaches creative writing, Liberty. He taught literature Sunday Times and the Guardian writes children’s fiction, and and history at a private middle and many others. Her latest Hensli Rahn Solórzano is translates poetry and academic school for four years but now book, The Invention of Nature a musician and fiction writer work into Finnish. She is a focuses entirely on writing. uncovers the unique life of from Venezuela. He is the founding member of Poesia, a Calling himself an author- German naturalist Alexander author of story collections, poetry publishing cooperative, peneur, he takes on many roles von Humboldt. Crónicamente Caracas and Dinero and the author of Kaksitoista, to get the book in the hands of fácil, named the “best Vene- an experimental poetry book as many readers as possible. Rachel Yoder draws from zuelan short story book of the project. (IWP) her experience as a writer, year” by El Universal. (IWP) Kali VanBaale is an teacher, editor, and performer Mariano Tenconi Blanco is Iowa-based writer whose as host of The Fail Safe, an Katherine E. Standefer a playwright from Argentina. debut novel, The Space Between, interview podcast that explores writes about the body, consent, Among his awards is the first earned an American Book how today’s most successful and medical technology from prize for New Playwright given Award, the Independent writers grapple with and learn Tucson, Ariz. Winner of the by the Buenos Aires Ministry Publisher’s silver medal for from failure. 2015 Iowa Review Award of Culture for Everything would general fiction, and the Fred in Nonfiction, her essay “In make sense if death did not exist. Bonnie Memorial First Novel Christine Yohannes is a Praise of Contempt” will be (IWP) Award. Her latest book, The poet and writer from Ethiopia. included in Best American Essays Good Divide, tells the story of She is the founder of the 2016. Erik Therme has thrashed a woman’s oppressive inner monthly “Poetic Saturdays” in garage bands, inadvertently dialogue and the impossible gathering, where everyone can Stephanos Stephanides is harbored runaways, and met choices that have determined express themselves through art. a poet and fiction writer and Darth Vader. His latest novel is the course of her life. Missing Words, a poetry collec- filmmaker from Cyprus. He Resthaven. tion, appeared in 2014. (IWP) received the American An- Angelo Volandes practices thropological Association’s first John Ira Thomas is internal medicine at Mas- Alice S. Yousef is a poet and prize for poetry in 1988, and a the author of more than sachusetts General Hospital translator from Palestinian first prize for video poetry for twenty books, including the in Boston, and is on faculty Territories. She publishes his “Poets in No Man’s Land” award-winning graphic novel at Harvard Medical School. poetry on her blog “Blooms at the Nicosia International MAN IS VOX: Barracudae (2015 His book, The Conversation: A in Indigo,” writing on the Film Festival. (IWP) Indiefab Silver Medal in Revolutionary Plan for End-of-Life Middle East, the Palestinian Graphic Novels) from Candle Care, is about how people can experience, and the emotions Catherine A. Stewart is Light Press. entrust themselves to receive of daily life. (IWP) professor of history at Cornell the medical care they need. College. Her book Long Past Genevieve Trainor is an edi- Zhou Jianing is a fiction Slavery examines the New tor and writer. She has worked Andrea Wilson is the Found- writer and translator in China. Deal’s Federal Writers’ Project for the past year as Arts Editor er and Executive Director She has published seven novels collected life stories from for- at Little Village magazine. of the Iowa Writers’ House, and two short story collections, mer African American slaves headquartered in Iowa City, as well as Chinese translations and shows how the project Tatiana Troitskaya is a Iowa. of major English-language was the product of competing writer from Ukraine. Her nov- writers such as Flannery visions of the past. el Akvamaryn dlia Vodoleyi won F. Paul Wilson is a New York O’Connor and Joyce Carol the 2012 Oles Honchar First Times bestselling author of Oates. Her most recent novel, Kalmia Strong is a Prize. (IWP) horror, adventure, thriller, In the Woods, was published in bookmaker, educator, artist, science fiction, and also works 2014. (IWP)
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