IOWACITYBOOKFESTIVAL.ORG CITY UNESCO CITY OF LITERATURE PRESENTS

Oct. 1-6, 2019 OCT. 1-6, 2019 recently ran into someone who told me the annual Iowa City Book Festival is her “happy place.” She I recounted events she had attended over the past few years, reciting specific details from the sessions. “I just STAFF learn so much!” she said. As we embark on the 11th annual Iowa City Book Festival, feedback like that is energizing. Providing those Executive types of experiences is the driving force behind the festival. We hope our attendees come away entertained and Director enlightened. John Kenyon I am often asked in the lead-up to each year’s festival, “Who do you have?” These well-meaning queries are in search of a name that will spark recognition, and each year we certainly offer authors with names familiar to Director of those who peruse Book Review. But we also schedule many authors whose names might not be Operations familiar, whose works haven’t hit your radar… yet. Rachael Carlson Iowa City, the third city in the world to earn the City of Literature designation, is now one of 28 in the world and one of 180 members of UNESCO’s multi-art form Creative Cities Network. We were recognized for Marketing many reasons: The word-renowned writing programs at the , including the Writers’ Workshop Assistant and International Writing Program, our small presses and magazines, our wonderful libraries, our bookstores, Brooke Sarrazin and amenities like the Iowa Avenue Literary Walk. While you are here, we encourage you to explore all of this and more, to fully immerse yourself in our rich literary culture. Social Media One of the joys of being in a City of Literature is not just the opportunity to be around well-known Sarah Nelson authors, but to be around people who are toiling away on their first novel, perfecting a poem that may never see publication, interviewing someone for a groundbreaking essay or piece of nonfiction. Literature is all around Intern us here, and the Iowa City Book Festival is our small way of illuminating a portion of it. Sometimes that means John Paul shining a spotlight, while other times we are attempting to brighten the corners a bit. Cacioppo Each year, the City of Literature staff is aided in that task by many people. In addition to the dozens of volunteers who make this possible, I would like to give special thanks to Anna Barker, Hugh Ferrer, Kathleen Program Design Johnson, Jordan Sellergren, and Jan Weissmiller. Little Village In addition, I would like to thank Ina Loewenberg, Mara Cole, Beth Fisher, Maeve Clark, the Iowa City Public Library, Prairie Lights, Joe Tiefenthaler and Rebecca Fons and the staff at FilmScene, the International Cover Writing Program, M.C. Ginsberg, the City of Coralville, the Coralville Public Library, Alison Ames Galstad, illustration United Way of Johnson County, Little Village, the Iowa Writers’ House, University of Iowa Libraries, and Iowa Blair Gauntt Public Radio.

John Kenyon

Nearly all Book Festival events are offered without charge. But they are not free. Your financial support gives us the ability to continue working toward our mission to celebrate and support literature on a local, regional, national, and international level, connecting readers and writers through the power of story. Please donate to the Book Festival by visiting www.iowacitybookfestival.org/support or calling (319) 887-6100.

2 iowacitybookfestival.org WAR & PEACE IOWACITYBOOKFESTIVAL.ORG

All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.

Public Reading of War and Peace Sept. 30-Oct. 3, 9 a.m.–9 p.m. / Oct. 4, 9 a.m. until it is finished, Weatherdance Fountain Stage, Pedestrian Mall (Graduate Hotel in inclement weather)

ach year, the Book Festival features the public reading of a classic work of Eliterature with supporting programming throughout the week. From Monday, Sept. 30, through Friday, Oct. 4, volunteers will read Leo Tolstoy’s War & Peace aloud in its entirety. This will be the 10th year Anna Barker has led this program, and the second time it has involved Tolstoy’s classic. The reading will take place from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on the Pedestrian Mall stage outside the Graduate hotel. Other programming, including partnerships with the Stanley Museum of Art, Special Collections at the UI Main Library, a screening of the classic 1966-67 film at FilmScene, and more will be a part of the celebration throughout the festival and beyond. Free and open to the public.

Goya’s Disasters “Uncle Vanya” by Anton Chekhov War and Peace of War prints at the Stanley at FilmScene owa premiere of a new translation by 019 marks the 150th anniversary IRichard Nelson, Richard Pevear and n collaboration with the 2of the book publication of War and Larissa Volokhonsky IIowa City Book Festival, and Peace. The Stanley Museum of Art has in celebration of the 150th joined with Special Collections to mark Riverside Theatre anniversary of Leo Tolstoy’s epic, this occasion to pair the presentation of (213 N. Gilbert Street, Iowa City IA 52245) FilmScene presents a new digital Leo Tolstoy’s novel in conversation with Thursday, October 3, 7:30 p.m. restoration of Sergei Bondarchuk’s Francisco Goya’s Disasters of War prints. Friday, October 4, 7:30 p.m. eight-hour masterpiece. Saturday, October 5, 7:30 p.m. The University of Iowa Stanley Museum Sunday, October 6, 2 p.m. Sun. Oct. 6 of Art, “The Disasters of War” 1:30 p.m. Introduction by Anna Stanley Visual Classroom, third floor ollowing the performance on Barker, Adjunct Assistant Professor, IMU, July 30–December 8, 2019 FSaturday, Oct. 5, will be a discussion Russian Literature with University of Iowa professor Anna 2 p.m. Chapter I, Andrei Bolkonsky University of Iowa’s Main Library, Barker and the cast of “Uncle Vanya.” 4:45 p.m. Special Collections Reading Room. Anton Chekhov’s “scenes from a Chapter II, Natasha Rostova “Goya’s ‘Disasters of War’ and Tolstoy’s country life” tells the story of Vanya and 6:30 p.m. ‘War and Peace’: A Dialogue Between his niece Sonya, who devoted their rural Chapter III, The Year 1812 Art and Literature” lives to support the academic work of 8 p.m. Chapter IV, Pierre Bezukhov September 9–December 19, 2019 Sonya’s father, a retired professor. But $20 members / $25 non members when the professor’s new, young wife Recasting Tolstoy for appears on the scene, bucolic harmony Mon. Oct. 7, Wed. Oct. 9 World War II: Sergei Prokofiev’s is thrown into discord. A new version by 5:30 p.m. Encore introduction by Opera War and Peace and the Russian celebrated playwright Richard Nelson and Anna Barker on Monday, Oct. 7 Epic Tradition preeminent Russian translators Richard 6 p.m. Chapter I, Andrei Bolkonsky Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. 8:45 p.m. Tuesday, October 15, 6:30-10:30 p.m., Directed by Adam Knight and Chapter II, Natasha Rostova The University of Iowa School of featuring Tim Budd, Eric Forsythe, Joshua Regular ticketing Music Voxman Building, Stark Opera Fryvecind, Katy Hahn, Rachel Lindhart, Studio (151) Jessica Link, and Krista Neumann. Tues, Oct. 8, Thurs. Oct. 10 5:30 p.m. Chapter III, The Year ar and Peace opera screening Tickets and more info about show dates before the 1812 Wwith an introduction by festival can be found at www.riversidetheatre.org 7 p.m. Chapter IV, Pierre Bezukhov Professor Nathan Platte. or 319-338-7672. Regular ticketing

iowacitybookfestival.org 3 TUESDAY, OCT. 1

All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.

Paul Engle Prize ceremony for Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady 7 p.m., Coralville Public Library, 1401 5th St, Coralville

oi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady Oct. 1. The event is at 7 p.m. at the of her poems have been published in Thave been named recipients of Coralville Public Library, and is free and magazines and journals Her latest book the Paul Engle Prize, presented by the open to the public. is I: New and Selected Poems. Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature Derricotte and Eady co-founded Eady is the author of eight books organization. Cave Canem in 1996 to remedy the of poetry. His second book, Victims of The prize, established in 2011, under-representation and the Latest Dance Craze, won honors an individual who, isolation of the Lamont Prize from the like Paul Engle, represents African American Academy of American Poets a pioneering spirit in the poets in the in 1985; in 2001, Brutal world of literature through literary landscape. Imagination was a finalist for writing, editing, publishing, What started as the National Book Award. or teaching, and whose a gathering of He has taught at Notre active participation in the 26 poets is now Dame University and the larger issues of the day an influential University of Missouri. has contributed to the movement with The Paul Engle Prize betterment of the world a renowned is made possible through through the literary arts. faculty, high- the generous support of the Derricotte and Eady achieving national City of Coralville, which is become the eighth and ninth fellowship of over 400 and a home to 11 permanent sculptures with winners of the award. This workshop community of 900. artistic and literary ties to Iowa. The is the first time the award Derricotte is a poet and sculptures all have ties to work found in has been presented to two people in memoirist who is a professor emerita of The Iowa Writers’ Library, housed in the one year. Each will be presented with a writing at the University of Pittsburgh. Coralville Marriott, which features about one-of-a-kind work of art and $10,000 She is the author of six volumes of 800 books written by former students, during a special ceremony as part of poetry. She won a 2012 PEN/Voelcker graduates and faculty of the Iowa the Iowa City Book Festival on Tuesday, Award for Poetry. More than 1,000 Writers’ Workshop.

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John Sandford Raj Patel 7 p.m., Meeting Room A, 7 p.m., Englert Theatre Iowa City Public Library Presented by the Sustainable Iowa Land Trust hen first Wwalked the streets of Iowa riter, activist and academic City, he was known as John Camp, WRaj Patel, best-known for an aspiring journalist who was the book Stuffed and Starved, the attending the journalism program at Hidden Battle for the World’s Food the University of Iowa. He returns as a Pulitzer Prize-winner System, returns to discuss his latest work, History of the World and a New York Times bestselling mystery author. The Cedar in 7 Cheap Things. He also will show rough cuts from his Rapids native is the author of 40 novels, including 29 in the latest documentary film, a story of community activists Lucas Davenport “Prey” series, and 11 in the Virgil Flowers from one of the world’s poorest countries traveling the series. Sandford will discuss the latest in the Flowers series, U.S. to talk to farmers, advocates and policymakers about Bloody Genius, in conversation with City of Literature Executive climate change. Patel’s talk is presented by the Sustainable Director John Kenyon. Iowa Land Trust.

Gallery talk 4 p.m., University Rising Together | Protest in Print of Iowa Main UI Main Library Gallery open hours: 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday, Wednes- Library Gallery day, Thursday, Friday, 9 a.m.- 8 p.m. Tuesday Join co-curators of Rising Together | his exhibit features artist books, prints, and zines with social justice Protest in Print for a Tthemes drawn from the University of Iowa Libraries Special conversation about Collections and the College Book Art Association juried traveling exhibition book arts and print Rising Together. Through contemporary and historical examples, the in social and political exhibit demonstrates how this work can give activism a visual voice and can movements. serve as a powerful agent in effecting social change on issues encompassing power, politics, war, immigration, the environment and more.

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James Geary 5:15 p.m., Shambaugh Auditorium, UI Main Library (125 W Washington St.)

ames Geary, Jdeputy curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard and editor of Nieman Reports, will present “Juggling Aphorisms,” based on his latest book, Wit’s End: What Wit Is, How It Works, and Why We Need It.

Geary also will read at the UI’s English-Philosophy Building at 4 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 4

Literary Kiosk Writing Workshop 5:30 p.m., Meeting Room C, Iowa City Public Library

his workshop will help you turn your Kei Miller Tliterary ambitions into 8,000-character 7 p.m., Meeting Room A, Iowa City Public Library submissions for the new Literary Kiosks. amaican poet and novelist Kei Miller, an Ida JBeam scholar visiting the UI’s International Screening of “My Life Writing Program. Miller is the author of three with Rosie,” by Dr. Angela novels, several poetry collections, and Fear of Stones Williamson and Other Stories, which was short-listed for the 7 p.m., FilmScene’s Chauncey space Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for Best First Book. (404 E. College St.)

FRIDAY, OCT. 4 Drop-in James IWP Panel: Speaking Freely? Daniel Poppick zine-making Geary 12 p.m., Meeting Room A, and workshop 4 p.m., Iowa City Public Library Jessica Laser 1-4 p.m., UI’s English- y definition, being a writer depends 5:30 p.m., University of Iowa Philosophy Bon having speech be free. Yet freedom Prairie Lights Main Library Building of speech is understood and valued very oppick and Laser n conjunction eading from differently across historical moments, Pread from their Iwith the Rising Rhis book, cultures, and contexts; the concept of “hate latest poetry collections. Together | Protest Wit’s End: What speech” stands in sharp contradiction to Poppick is the author of in Print exhibition Wit Is, How It that of “freedom of expression.” What Fear of Description, while at the University of Works, and Why is a writer’s responsibility in the domain Laser’s latest is Sergei Iowa Main Library We Need It between these two poles? Kuzmich from All Sides.

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All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.

Dr. Angela Williamson 10 a.m.-noon University of Iowa Main Library

r. Angela DWilliamson, an award-winning independent filmmaker, speaker, and adjunct instructor in the Communication Studies Department at Concordia University Irvine, will speak about her book, Women Who Illuminate, and show a short clip of her documentary film, “My Life With Rosie,” about her cousin, Rosa Parks.

One Community One Book: Lauren Markham 7 p.m., 240 Art Building West

his year’s selection in the University of Iowa TCenter for Human Rights One Community One Book program is Lauren Markham’s The Far Away Brothers. Markham will speak about her book in this special Book Festival event. This year’s selection tells the story of identical twin brothers who are forced to leave their home in El Salvador under the brutal conditions of war and violence. They make their way to Oakland, California where they must adjust to their new lives. Markham’s storytelling captures rich and nuanced insight into the migrant experience. Of the book, The New York Times’ Jennifer Senior writes, “The Far Away Brothers is impeccably timed, intimately reported and beautifully expressed. Markham brings people and places to rumbling life; she has that rare ability to recreate elusive, subjective experiences...without taking undue liberties.”

iowacitybookfestival.org 7 SATURDAY, OCT. 5 All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.

A ICPL Meeting Room A C Iowa City Senior Center E FilmScene 123 S Linn St. 28 S. Linn St. 118 E. College St. 10 a.m. Angela Williamson, 1 p.m. Assembly Hall: 10 a.m. Don Waters, Women Who Illuminate Lori Erickson (Near the Exit) These Boys and Their Fathers 11:30 a.m. William Steele, Going the Room 202: John Domini 11:30 a.m. Amanda Lee Koe, Distance (W.P. Kinsella biography) (The Color Inside a Melon) Delayed Rays of a Star 1 p.m. Paula Becker, House on Stilts 2:30 p.m. Assembly Hall: 2:30 p.m. Kassandra Montag, Andy Douglas (Redemption Songs) After the Flood Room 202: F Shambaugh Auditorium 4 p.m. Josh Gondelman, Nice Try/ Joseph Dobrian (Feldy’s Girl) University of Iowa Main Library Lyz Lenz, God Land 4 p.m. Assembly Hall: 2:30 p.m. Christina Ward, Joe Michaud (Prairie Wind) American Advertising Cookbooks

B Prairie Lights Bookstore 15 S Dubuque St. D Masonic Building Vendor List: MERGE Book Fair 10 a.m. Eileen Pollack, 312 E. College St. Earthwords The Professor of Immortality 10 a.m. Panel: Immigration. Fools Magazine 11:30 a.m. Kendra Allen, Lauren Markham, Sarah Iowa City Press Co-Op When You Learn the Alphabet Elgatian, Andrea Wilson Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature 1 p.m. Novuyo Rosa Tshuma, 11:30 a.m. Panel: University of Ice Cube Press House of Stone Iowa Press 50th: Holly Carver, Ink Lit Mag 2:30 p.m. Donika Kelly, Bestiary/ Jim McCoy, Paula Becker, Don The Iowa Review Melissa Febos, Abandon Me Waters, Allison Means Iowa Writers’ House 4 p.m. Lisa Tetrault, The Myth of 1 p.m. Panel: Who Do You Read? Mindbridge Seneca Falls 2:30 p.m. Panel: A Sense of Place North American Review 4 p.m. Panel: Politics Promptpress Public Space One Nearly all Book Festival events are Please check Rex Imperator offered without charge. But they are not www.iowacitybookfestival.org/schedule Translate Iowa Project free. Please donate to the Book Festival for a list of panelists. University Of Iowa Press by visiting www.iowacitybookfestival. Usborne Books And More org/support or calling (319) 887-6100.

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iowacitybookfestival.org 9 SATURDAY, OCT. 5

All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.

Christina Ward presents American Advertising Cookbooks 2:30 p.m.,. Shambaugh Auditorium, University of Iowa Main Library

ere in the Midwest, we Hare all too familiar with the phrase “Jell-O salad.” While we may laugh at some of these wobbly concoctions, how many of us can say that we’ve thought about where these recipes originated? Join the University of Iowa Libraries and the Iowa City Book Festival in welcoming Christina Ward, author of American Advertising Cookbooks: How Corporations Taught Us to Love Bananas, Spam, and Jell-O, as she explores the messy history behind some of our most popular foods. This talk will start at 2:30 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 5, in Shambaugh Auditorium on the first floor of the Main Library. Following the talk, local Iowa City group Historic Foodies will be serving up some of these infamous recipes, and Special Collections will be showcasing several great pieces from the beloved Szathmary Culinary Collection, leaving you with plenty of food for thought, but hungry for more.

A Celebration for Connie Brothers 4 p.m., Macbride Auditorium Macbride Hall, University of Iowa campus

he Iowa City community, Talong with hundreds of Iowa Writers’ Workshop students and alumni, will join speakers including Marilynne Robinson, Francine Prose, James Galvin, Chris Adrian, and Lan Samantha Chang to celebrate Connie Brothers on the occasion of her retirement as administrator of the Writers’ Workshop after 45 years.

10 iowacitybookfestival.org SUNDAY, OCT. 6 IOWACITYBOOKFESTIVAL.ORG Reading Aloud 1-2 p.m., Meeting Room A, Iowa City Public Library

eading Alouda poetry reading group based at the Iowa City Senior RCenter, will read a selection of poems from American Journal, edited by Tracy K. Smith, and Robert Hayden’s [American Journal], the inspiration for Smith’s anthology. Reading Aloud has been bringing the joy of poetry to audiences in the community since 2005. Readers are Michael Chan, Chuck Felling, Mary Gutmann, Nancy Lynch, Cari Malone, Kathy Mitchell, Connie Peterson, Jim Piper, Judy Trpka, Jeff Young and Sally Young.

The Political Season: A community workshop 2:30 p.m., Meeting Room D, Iowa City Public Library, 123 S. Linn St.

reflective community A workshop that will that will use writing as a teaching and learning tool to get participants to think critically about how to create an atmosphere for civil discourse during the political season. Presented by the Center for Teaching in the University of Iowa Office of Teaching, Learning and Technology in collaboration with the Iowa City Book Festival. Sign up at https://uiowa.qualtrics.com/jfe/ form/SV_9N8N7cAFa2z4mYB The Roast The Terrain of No Words: An Elegy for Refugees of Iowa City A Reading of Bejan Matur’s Sea of Fate Oct. 6, 5:30 p.m., The Mill (120 2:30 p.m., Meeting Room A, Iowa City Public Library, 123 S. Linn St. E Burlington St.)

he world renowned Turkish poet Bejan Matur wrote her Sea of Fate in 2009, in ear after year, some of Tthe span of a three-week long “near-trance,” an almost mystical outpouring of Ythe area’s most treasured words and lines. The poem cycle is a meditation on the fateful passage across the comics and writers gather Mediterranean Sea that untold number of refugees have braved for centuries, in search together to relentlessly burn and of sanctuary. mock everything sacred and dear Bejan Matur’s work has only gained greater valence and urgency since the Syrian about our town. It’s the 10th refugee odyssey. Join us for a multi-media dramatic reading of Sea of Fate, newly annual Roast of Iowa City, the translated into English by Aron Aji and Leigh Marshall. exclamation point on the Iowa City Leigh Marshall, who voices the reading, is a director and actor completing her Book Festival! Hosted by Audrey MFA in Playwriting at the University of Iowa. Aron Aji, is a translator from Turkish, and Brock. Doors open at 5 p.m. Director of the MFA in Literary Translation at the University of Iowa. The performance will also feature Turkish painter Mehmet Gunyeli’s artwork inspired by Matur’s poem.

iowacitybookfestival.org 11 FEATURED AUTHORS

Kendra Allen Toi Derricotte John Domini Cornelius Eady

Kendra Allen is the author memoir, The Black Notebooks, Color Inside a Melon, appeared this Selected Poems. His second book, of the essay collection When received the 1998 Anisfield-Wolf summer. Blurbs came from Sal- Victims of the Latest Dance Craze, You Learn The Alphabet and the Book Award for Non-Fiction and man Rushdie and Marlon James, won the Lamont Prize from the winner of the 2018 Iowa Prize was a New York Times Notable and the Washington Post praised Academy of American Poets in for Literary Nonfiction from the Book of the Year. Her honors the book as “sagely genre-tweak- 1985; in 2001 Brutal Imagination University of Iowa Press. She include, among many others, ing” and “spry.” Set in Naples, was a finalist for the National has published in brevity, december, the 2012 Paterson Poetry Prize Italy, the novel completes a loose Book Award. His work in theater and The Rumpus, among others. for Sustained Literary Achieve- trilogy. Domini also has three includes the libretto for an opera, Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, ment, the 2012 PEN/Voelcker books of stories, the latest is “Running Man,” which was a Allen is an MFA candidate at the Award for Poetry, the Lucille MOVIEOLA! His criticism has finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in University of Alabama where Medwick Memorial Award from appeared in The New York Times Drama in 1999. His play, “Brutal she is working on her thesis and the Poetry Society of America, and elsewhere, and is collected in Imagination,” won Newsday’s leading freshman students astray. three Pushcart Prizes, and the The Sea-God’s Herb. Oppenheimer award in 2002. Distinguished Pioneering of the In 1996 Eady co-founded, with Paula Becker is a writer and Andy Douglas is the author of Arts Award from the United writer Toi Derricotte, the Cave historian living in Seattle, Wash- Redemption Songs: A Year in the Life Black Artists. Professor Emerita Canem summer workshop/re- ington. She is the author of the of a Community Prison Choir, based at the University of Pittsburgh. treat for African American poets. book Looking for Betty MacDonald: on his experience as a volunteer Derricotte co-founded Cave Ca- The Egg, The Plague, Mrs. Pig- singing in a choir with prisoners, Sarah Elgatian is a second-gen- nem Foundation with Cornelius gle-Wiggle and I, and co-author of and The Curve of the World: Into eration Armenian American with Eady. the books The Future Remembered: the Spiritual Heart of Yoga. His a lot of questions. Her paternal The 1962 Seattle World’s Fair and Joseph Dobrian is the author of essays, stories and translations grandparents came to the United Its Legacy and Alaska-Yukon-Pacific the novels Willie Wilden, Ambitions, have appeared in Mary, New Re- States through Ellis Island, barely Exposition: Washington’s First World’s Hard-Wired, and Feldy’s Girl. He is naissance, J Journal, Fogged Clarity, escaping the Armenian genocide. Fair. the CEO of Dobrian, Frances, Nimrod, Pisgah Review, Bayou, and She was born and raised in the Bowie & Long, an editorial The Examined Life. He’s active Quad Cities and later moved Toi Derricotte is the author of services firm, and the publisher of in peace, economic justice and to Chicago and Seattle before I: New & Selected Poems, The Un- Rex Imperator, an independent prison issues. returning to Iowa. As a writer, dertaker’s Daughter, and four earlier publishing house. He lives in Iowa she primarily writes nonfiction collections of poetry, including Cornelius Eady is the author City with four cats. and lyrical essays focusing on Tender, winner of the 1998 Pat- of eight books of poetry, includ- survival. Her writing has been erson Poetry Prize. Her literary John Domini’s fourth novel, The ing Hardheaded Weather: New and published in Beholder Magazine,

Paula Becker Joseph Dobrian Andy Douglas Sarah Elgatian

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Lori Erickson James Geary David Hamilton Amanda Lee Koe

Crab Fat, and more. She lives in University, her work has recently as some places without “New the End of the World, a poetry Iowa City, with her partner and appeared in Tin House, Granta, York” in the name. He has per- collective dedicated to service works at the Midwest Writing The Believer, The Sewanee Review, formed standup on “CONAN,” and social justice and works Center and with the Internation- and The New York Times. “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” as an Assistant Professor at al Writing Program. and “The Late Late Show with Baruch College. Her poems have James Geary is the deputy cu- James Corden.” Gondelman lives appeared or are forthcoming in Lori Erickson, an Episcopal rator of the Nieman Foundation in with his wife, Poetry, , and The deacon, is one of America’s top for Journalism at Harvard, editor Maris, and their pug. His debut Paris Review. travel writers specializing in spiri- of Nieman Reports, and former essay collection is Nice Try. tual journeys. She’s the author of editor of the European edition Amanda Lee Koe, born in the memoir Holy Rover: Journeys in of Time magazine. He is the David Hamilton was a mem- Singapore and based in New Search of Mystery, Miracles, and God, author of Wit’s End: What Wit Is, ber of the English Department York, was the youngest winner which was a finalist for the 2017 How It Works, and Why We Need at the University of Iowa for of the Singapore Literature Prize Travel Book of the Year INDIES It, I Is an Other: The Secret Life of 37years, teaching both literature for her first short story collection, Award from Foreword Reviews. Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way and writing courses. Through Ministry of Moral Panic. She was She lives in Iowa City with her We See the World, Geary’s Guide to most of those years he edited a 2014 honorary fellow of the husband. the World’s Great Aphorists, the New The Iowa Review. His new book University of Iowa’s Internation- York Times bestseller The World is A Certain Arc: Essays of Finding al Writing Program. Her debut Melissa Febos is the author in a Phrase: A Brief History of the My Way. novel is Delayed Rays of A Star. of the acclaimed memoir, Whip Aphorism, and The Body Electric: An Smart, and the essay collection, Donika Kelly is the author of Jessica Laser’s first full-length Anatomy of The New Bionic Senses. Abandon Me, which was a LAMB- the chapbook Aviarium and the collection, Sergei Kuzmich from DA Literary Award finalist, Josh Gondelman is a come- full-length collection Bestiary, All Sides, was released in March a Publishing Triangle Award dian and a writer/producer for which won the 2015 Cave Ca- 2019. A graduate of the Iowa finalist, an Indie Next Pick, and “Desus & Mero” on Showtime. nem Poetry Prize, the Kate Tufts Writers’ Workshop, Laser has was widely named a best book of Previously, he earned two Pea- Discovery Award, and a Hur- taught at Brown University, the 2017. Her third book, Girlhood, is body Awards and three Emmys ston/Wright Legacy Award, and University of Iowa, Manhattan- forthcoming from Bloomsbury in for his work on “Last Week was long listed for the National ville College, Parsons School of 2021. The recipient of an MFA Tonight with .” Gon- Book Award. Her second book, Design and SUNY Purchase. from Sarah Lawrence College delman’s writing has appeared in The Renunciations is forthcoming She is currently pursuing a and an associate professor and the New York Times, New York Mag- from Graywolf in 2021. Kelly is doctorate in English at The Uni- graduate director at Monmouth azine, and the New Yorker, as well a founding member of Poets at versity of California, Berkeley.

Melissa Febos Josh Gondelman Donika Kelly Jessica Laser

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Lyz Lenz Joe Michaud Kassandra Montag Eileen Pollack

Lyz Lenz’s writing has appeared Joe Michaud grew up in short fiction has appeared in American Essays. A longtime facul- in the Huffington Post, The Wash- Portand, Maine. He has been journals and anthologies, includ- ty member and former director ington Post, The New York Times, writing since high school when ing Midwestern Gothic, Nebraska of the Helen Zell MFA Program Pacific Standard, and others. Her he wrote lyrics for some 50 rock Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and Mystery in Creative Writing at the Uni- book, God Land was released this and country songs for a small Weekly Magazine. After the Flood is versity of Michigan, Pollack now fall through Indiana University band of friends. He has been her first novel. lives and works in Manhattan. Press. Her second book, Belabored, writing off and on ever since. He Raj Patel is an award-winning Daniel Poppick is the author of is due out from Bold Type Books has self published nine books of writer, activist and academic. Fear of Description and The Police. in Spring 2020. Lenz’s essay “All poetry, two memoirs and a book He is a research professor in the His poetry appears in BOMB, the Angry Women” was also about the writing scene in Iowa Lyndon B Johnson School of The New Republic, Fence, Bennington included in the anthology Not City. Public Affairs at the University Review, the PEN Poetry Series, that Bad edited by Roxane Gay. Kei Miller is the author of three of Texas, Austin, and a senior and other journals. The recipient She received her MFA in creative novels, several poetry collections, research associate at the unit for of awards from the MacDowell writing from Lesley University. and Fear of Stones and Other Stories, the humanities at the university Colony and the Corporation of She lives in Iowa with her two which was short-listed for the currently known as Rhodes Yaddo and a graduate of the kids and two cats and is a con- Commonwealth Writer’s Prize University (UHURU), South Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he tributing writer to the Columbia for Best First Book. In 2014, Africa. His first book was Stuffed has taught at the University of Journalism Review and a columnist he won the Forward Prize for and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the Iowa, Victoria University (New for the Cedar Rapids Gazette. Best Poetry Collection for The World Food System. His second, The Zealand), Coe College, and the Lauren Markham is a writer Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Value of Nothing, was a New York Parsons School of Design. He and reporter based in Northern Zion. Born in Jamaica, he lives Times and international best-sell- currently lives in , where California. She writes fiction, in London and teaches creative er. His latest, co-written with he works as a copywriter and essays and journalism – mostly writing at Royal Holloway, Uni- Jason W. Moore, is A History of the coedits the Catenary Press. about migration, youth, the envi- versity of London. World in Seven Cheap Things. John Sandford is the pseud- ronment, and her home state of Kassandra Montag grew up Eileen Pollack is the author of onym for the Pulitzer Prize–win- California, though about other in rural Nebraska and now lives the novels The Professor of Immor- ning journalist John Camp. He things, too. Her book, The Far in Omaha with her husband and tality, The Bible of Dirty Jokes and A is the author of 29 Lucas Daven- Away Brothers, is the University of two sons. She holds a master’s Perfect Life. Her essay, “Pigeons,” port “Prey” novels, most recently Iowa Center for Human Rights’ degree in English literature and was selected by Cheryl Strayed Neon Prey; four Kidd novels; One Community One Book her award-winning poetry and for the 2013 edition of the Best twelve Virgil Flowers novels; and choice for 2019.

Lauren Markham Kei Miller Raj Patel Daniel Poppick

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Dr. Angela Sadler John Sandford Lisa Tetrault Christina Ward Williamson six other books, including three Novuyo Rosa Tshuma is Don Waters is the author of cial, municipal government, and young-adult novels coauthored a Zimbabwean writer. She These Boys and Their Fathers, a higher education industries. Her with his wife, Michele Cook. His debuted with her 2013 collec- memoir, Sunland, a novel, and former roles include producer latest is Bloody Genius, a Flowers tion, Shadows, which included a two story collections, The Saints and copywriter for the Orange novel. novella and short stories. Her of Rattlesnake Mountain and County NewsChannel, Fox 11 first novel is House of Stone. She is Desert Gothic. His fiction has been Television, Fox Sports West, William Steele grew up in a graduate of the University of widely published and antholo- and Prime Ticket. In Decem- Washington Court House, Ohio. Iowa Writers’ Workshop. gized in the Pushcart Prize, Best of ber 2018, she released her He is a professor of English the West, and New Stories from the award-winning documentary at Lipscomb University in Christina Ward is an Southwest. A frequent contributor about her cousin, Rosa Parks, Nashville, Tennessee, who wrote award-winning writer and editor to the San Francisco Chronicle, he “My Life with Rosie,” on Am- his master’s thesis and doctoral with experience writing compel- also has written for The New azon Prime. She contributed to dissertation on W.P. Kinsella’s ling books, articles, and reviews. York Times, Outside, The Believer, the new essay anthology, Women baseball stories. His new book is She is a featured contributor Tin House, and Slate, among Who Illuminate. Going the Distance, an authorized to Serious Eats, Edible Milwaukee, other publications. Waters is a biography of Kinsella. The Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel, Andrea Wilson is the editor graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Remedy Quarterly, and Runcible of We the Interwoven and the Lisa Tetrault is professor of Workshop, teaches at Lewis & Spoon magazines. Ward’s love of director of the Iowa Writers’ history at Carnegie Mellon Uni- Clark College, and lives in Port- history comes from her father House’s Bicultural Iowa Writers’ versity. She specializes in the land, Oregon, with his partner, who instilled the idea that we Fellowship and the series She history of U.S. women, gender, the writer Robin Romm, and are all manifestations of our grew up in Columbus Junction, race, and American democracy. their daughters. ancestors. Her love of cooking a small Iowa farming communi- Her book, The Myth of Seneca comes from her mother who Dr. Angela Sadler Wil- ty experiencing a cultural shift Falls: Memory and the Women’s Suf- was a terrible cook; which gave liamson is an award-winning from the meat-packing industry frage Movement, 1848-1898, traces her the inspiration to learn how independent filmmaker, speaker, and seasonal agricultural work. the making of a story about to cook for herself and siblings. and adjunct instructor in In her early adulthood, she lived the foundations of American She prides herself on having the Communication Studies in Toronto, Canada, and began feminism and interrogates that a hungry mind interested in Department at Concordia Uni- to write cultural stories. She story’s political purposes. An learning about people, the foods versity Irvine. Dr. Williamson traveled and lived throughout Iowa City native, she now lives they eat, and the stories that rise has over 25 years of experience Latin America before returning in Pittsburgh. from that convergence. in the broadcast television, cable to Iowa City and founding the advertising, healthcare, finan- Writers’ House.

William Steele Novuyo Rosa Tshuma Don Waters Andrea Wilson

iowacitybookfestival.org 15 SATURDAY,OCT. 5 Masonic Lodge ICPL - Room A Senior Center Prairie Lights FilmScene Their Fathers) (These Boys and Don Waters Immigration Panel: Immortality) (The Professor of Eileen Pollack Illuminate) (Women Who Angela Williamson 10:00 a.m. www.iowacitybookfestival.org/support or calling (319) 887-6100. But they are not free. Please donate to the Book Festival by visiting Nearly all Book Festival events are offered without charge. of a Star) (Delayed Rays Amanda Lee Koe UI Press 50th Panel: the Alphabet) (When You Learn Kendra Allen Distance) the (Going William Steele 11:30 a.m. Who Do You Read? Panel: (House of Stone) Tshuma Novuyo Rosa a Melon) (The Color Inside John Domini Room 202: (Near the Exit) Lori Erickson Assembly Hall: (House on Stilts) Paula Becker 1:00 p.m. A Sense of Place Panel: (Abandon Me) /Melissa Febos (Bestiary) Donika Kelly (Feldy’s Girl) Joseph Dobrian Room 202: Songs) (Redemption Andy Douglas Assembly Hall: (After the Flood) (After Kassandra Montag 2:30 p.m. Auditorium Macbride the most complete schedule, please visit the public. Events subject to change. For All Saturday events are free and open to IOWACITYBOOKFESTIVAL.ORG iowacitybookfestival.org Connie Brothers A Celebration for Politics Panel: Seneca Falls) (The Myth of Lisa Tetrault (Prairie Wind) Joe Michaud Assembly Hall: (God Land) (God (Nice Try)/ Lyz Lenz Josh Gondelman 4:00 p.m. OCTOBER 1–6, 2019

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