Authors
Author appearances made possible in part by a grant from Humanities Iowa
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Ghada Abdel Aal
Ghada Abdel Aal is a pharmacist and regular columnist for the Egyptian daily newspaper Al Shorouk and the seasonal magazine Black and White. Her satirical novel Aiza Atgawez [ عايزة أتجوز] has been translated into Italian, German, and Dutch, and turned into a popular and award-winning television series. The English translation, I Want to Get Married!, was published by University...Read More
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Yasser Abdel-Latif
Yasser Abdel-Latif (novelist, poet, scriptwriter, translator; Egypt) is the author of two poetry collections; the latest [Nocturnal Round] was published in 2009. His first novel [Law of Inheritance] won the 2005 Sawiris Prize in the young authors category.Read More
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Eve Adamson
When: Saturday, July 16, 4:00 p.m.
Location: First Floor West Discussion
Website: http://www.eveadamson.com/Eve Adamson is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning freelance writer living in Iowa. She is available on a limited basis for co-authoring, ghostwriting, and book and article assignments. She has written or co-written over 50 books, specializing in food, diets, holistic health, self-help, yoga, meditation, and animals.Read More
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Mary Allen
When: Saturday, July 16, 10:30 a.m.
Location: Special Collections Reading Room
Mary Allen is the author of a memoir, The Rooms of Heaven, published by Alfred A. Knopf and Vintage Books. She received an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship for work on a second memoir, Awake in...Read More
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Kate Aspengren
When: Saturday, July 16, 2:30 p.m.
Location: First Floor West Discussion, UI Main Library
Kate Aspengren’s plays include Flyer, American Smooth, Too Fast to Fall, Our Lady of Route 52, and a stage adaptation of Madeleine L’Engel’s A Wrinkle in Time. Several of her plays have been published by Samuel French and are produced regularly throughout North America.Read More
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Ibtisam Barakat
When: Saturday, July 16, 10:30 a.m.
Location: Second Floor North Lounge, UI Main Library
Website: http://www.ibtisambarakat.com/Born in Palestine, Ibtisam Barakat fled home at the age of three with her family during the Six-Day War and at age 22 immigrated to the United States. As an educator, poet and peace activist, she has received much critical acclaim for her memoir Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood (2007).Read More
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Nancy K. Barry
Nancy K. Barry is a nonfiction writer and essayist whose work has appeared on Iowa Public Radio, theBaltimore Sun, the Chicago Tribune, Minneapolis Star and Tribune, and Iowa Woman. In 2010, her play “Lessons from Cancer College,” funded in part by the Iowa Arts Council, was performed in several Iowa and Minnesota theatres. She...Read More
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Jef Beck
When: Sunday, July 17, 1:00 p.m.
Location: Iowa Book, 8 South Clinton Street, Phone Number: 319-337-4188
Website: http://www.manbehindthedoll.com/Jef Beck is the creator of Keeping Ken, a comprehensive website with Ken doll information and imagery. He is a preeminent collector and Ken historian whose four-part Ken series was published in Barbie Bazaar magazine. He lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.Read More
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Elizabeth Berg
When: Saturday, July 16, 2:00 p.m.
Location: Shambaugh Auditorium, UI Main Library
Website: http://www.elizabeth-berg.netElizabeth Berg is the author of many bestselling novels, as well as two collections of short stories and two works of nonfiction. Open House was an Oprah’s Book Club selection, Durable Goods and Joy School were selected as ALA Best Books of the Year, and Talk Before Sleep was short-listed...Read More
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Don Beussink
When: Saturday, July 16, 12:45 p.m.
Location: Second Floor West Discussion, UI Main Library
Born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Don Beussink has spent over three decades in senior level sales and marketing positions in St. Louis, Chicago and New York with Mallinckrodt Medical, Boston Scientific and ThermoFisher Scientific. He has traveled extensively logging more than 1.5 million miles and has had both domestic and...Read More
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Jeff Biggers
When: Saturday, July 16, 10:15 a.m.
Location: South Patio, Gibson Square
Website: http://jeffrbiggers.com/Raised in Illinois and Arizona, Jeff Biggers is the author of Reckoning at Eagle Creek, The United States of Appalachia and In the Sierra Madre. He has worked as a writer, educator and radio correspondent across the United States, Europe, India and Mexico.Read More
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Will Boast
When: Saturday, July 16, 4:15 p.m.
Location: Third Floor North Discussion, UI Main Library
Website: http://willboast.com/Will Boast is the author of Power Ballads (2011), published at the University of Iowa Press, Iowa City. He has received the Iowa Short Fiction Award, the Stegner Fellowship, and the Best New American Voices in 2009.Read More
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Dori Hillestad Butler
When: Saturday, July 16, 11:30 p.m.
Location: Children's Tent, Gibson's Square
Website: http://kidswriter.com/Dori Hillestad Butler is the author of 36 books for children, including the Buddy Files, which is a chapter book series about a school therapy dog who solves mysteries. The books are told from the dog detective’s point of view.Read More
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Bonnie Jo Campbell
When: Saturday, July 16, 12:30 p.m.
Location: Shambaugh Auditorium, UI Main Library
Website: http://www.bonniejocampbell.com/index.htmlBonnie Jo Campbell grew up on a small Michigan farm with her mother and four siblings in a house her grandfather Herlihy built in the shape of an H. She learned to castrate small pigs, milk Jersey cows, and, when she was snowed in with chocolate, butter, and vanilla, to...Read More
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Jeff Charis-Carlson
When: Saturday, July 16, 10:30 a.m.
Location: Third Floor North Discussion, UI Main Library
Jeff Charis-Carlson is the Opinion Editor for the Iowa City Press-Citizen newspaper. He also regularly reviews books for the paper.Read More
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Rob Cline
When: Saturday, July 16, 10:30 a.m.
Location: Third Floor North Discussion, UI Main Library
By day, Rob Cline is the marketing guru at Hancher Auditorium. But when the sun goes down Rob turns his voracious appetite for books to coordinating the Outloud Author Series in Cedar Rapids and writing reviews for various publications across Eastern Iowa.Read More
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M.S. Coe
When: Sunday, July 17, 1:00 p.m.
Location: Iowa Artisan's Gallery, 207 East Washington Street, Phone Number: 319-351-8686
M.S. Coe grew up in the Sonoran and Mojave deserts. She worked at the University of Arizona Poetry Center and as a reader for Sonora Review and is currently an assistant editor of Epoch literary magazine.Read More
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Camille Dungy
When: Saturday, July 16, 5:00 p.m.
Location: Shambaugh Auditorium, UI Main Library
Website: http://www.camilledungy.com/Camille's three collections of poetry are Smith Blue (Southern Illinois University Press, 2011), winner of the 2010 Crab Orchard Open Competition for Poetry, Suck on the Marrow (Red Hen Press, 2010), Silver Medal winner of the California Book Award, and What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for...Read More
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Freddy Fonseca
When: Sunday, July 17, 1:00 p.m.
Location: Om Gifts for Body and Soul, 105 South Linn Street
Website: http://www.thisenduringgift.comFreddy Niagara Fonseca, Renaissance man, poet, dramatic reader, impresario, and creator of THIS ENDURING GIFT - A FLOWERING OF FAIRFIELD POETRY has immersed himself in the arts all his life. He has read tens of thousands of poems in five languages.Read More
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Carol Galusha
When: Saturday, July 16 , 4:00 p.m.
Location: First Floor West Discussion, UI Main Library
Website: http://www.cgalusha.com/Carol Galusha is the author of Writing His Autobiography (2010) and The Same Birthday (2008); both books are published by Lumina Press, Tamarac, FL. Writing His Autobiography is a romantic comedy about a ghostwriter who falls in love for an older, has-been rock star. The Same Birthday is a story...Read More
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Linda Gerdner
When: Saturday, July 16,
Location: Children's Tent, Gibson Square
Linda A. Gerdner was born in Iowa and is a registered nurse. She is dedicated to helping persons with Alzheimer's disease and the family members who care for them. Although Grandfather's Story Cloth is her first children's book she has published extensively in professional journals and received international and national...Read More
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Megan Gogerty
When: Saturday, July 16, 2:30 p.m.
Location: First Floor West Discussion, UI Main Library
Website: http://www.megangogerty.com/home.htmlHailed by the Chicago Reader as “blonde-haired” and “blue-eyed,” Megan Gogerty is “a woman.” She’s also a playwright, performer, and songwriter.Read More
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Heather Gudenkauf
When: Saturday, July 16, 12:30 p.m.
Location: Shambaugh Auditorium, UI Main Library
Website: http://www.heathergudenkauf.comHeather Gudenkauf is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Weight of Silence & These Things Hidden. Her first novel, The Weight of Silence was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author and was chosen as a 2010 Summer Pick...Read More
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Joe Haldeman
The youngest writer to be named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Joe Haldeman has earned steady awards over his 40-year career: his novels THE FOREVER WAR and FOREVER PEACE both made clean sweeps of the Hugo and Nebula Awards, and he has won three...Read More
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Jane Hamilton
When: Sunday, July 17, 5:00 p.m.
Location: Englert Theatre, 221 East Washington St.
Website: http://www.janehamiltonbooks.com/Jane Hamilton resides in an orchard farmhouse in Wisconsin where she also works and writes. Her short stories have appeared in Harper’s magazine. Her first novel, The Book of Ruth, won the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award for best first novel and was a selection of the Oprah Book Club.Read More
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David Hamilton
When: Saturday, July 16, 10:30 a.m.
Location: Special Collections Reading Room, UI Main Library
Having never settled into a single area, I bounce back and forth from medieval, where I began, to modern and beyond where I migrated through years of editing The Iowa Review and teach Chaucer, medieval and early modern poetry, modern and contemporary poetry, essay workshops, and Montaigne, with something less...Read More
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Julie Hanson
When: Saturday, July 16, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Special Collections & Iowa Women's Archives, UI Main Library
Julie Hanson is the author of Unbeknownst (2011), published at the University of Iowa Press, Iowa. It is a book that will give you courage, and when it cannot do that it will give you consolation, and when it cannot do that it will make you laugh.Read More
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Jerry Harp
When: Saturday, July 16, 4:00 p.m.
Location: First Floor West Discussion, UI Main Library
Jerry Harp is the author of three books of poems, including Urban Flowers and Concrete Plains. He is co-editor (with Jan Weissmiller) of A Poetry Criticism Reader (Iowa, 2006). Jerry Harp is the author of "For Us, What Music?" (2010), published at the University of Iowa Press, Iowa. It provides...Read More
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Elizabeth Heineman
When: Sunday, July 17, 1:00 p.m.
Location: Mercy Hospital Atrium
Elizabeth Heineman is on the faculty of the History Department and the Department of Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa. In November 2008 she experienced a full-term stillbirth. She participated in Iowa City Hospice's "Writing Through Loss" program in spring 2009 and is now completing a...Read More
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S.L. Hudson
S. L. Hudson earned a masters degree in education from Harvard University, with a concentration in administration, planning, and social policy, and has drawn upon personal experiences and business classics to write Strike Zone. Hudson played AAU softball as a teen, taught in the public schools, became an entrepreneur, and a corporate...Read More
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Gregg Hurwitz
When: Saturday, July 16, 12:45 p.m.
Location: Third Floor North Discussion, UI Main Library
Website: http://gregghurwitz.net/Gregg Hurwitz is a critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of multiple novels including The Tower, Minutes to Burn and The Crime Writer. His books have been nominated for numerous awards, including CWA’s Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, honored as Book Sense Picks and translated into eighteen languages.Read More
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Patrick Irelan
Patrick Irelan grew up on a worthless little farm in Davis County, Iowa. His mother was a schoolteacher, and his father worked as a railroad depot agent. Irelan's childhood filled him with a lifetime supply of characters, places, and problems that have no solutions.Read More
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Jeremy Jackson
When: Saturday, July 16, 1:30 p.m.
Location: Second Floor North Lounge, UI Main Library
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Deborah Jackson -Taffa
Deborah Jackson-Taffa is a candidate for the MFA in Creative Writing (2013) at the University of Iowa where she is currently working on a collection of lyric essays. In December 2011 she will present a portion of her thesis at the Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3 in France.Read More
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Stephanie Kallos
When: Saturday, July 16, 3:30 p.m.
Location: Shambaugh Auditorium, UI Main Library
Website: http://www.stephaniekallos.com/index.htmlStephanie Kallos is the author of Sing Them Home (2009) and Broken for You (2004). Sing Them Home was in Entertainment Weekly's top 10 books. She has received the WA State Book Award, PNBA Book Award, and The Today Show Book Club selection award.Read More
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Kate Kasten
When: Sunday, July 17, 1:00 p.m.
Location: Congregational United Church of Christ
Kate Kasten is the author of the novel, The De-Conversion of Kit Lamb, and a soon to be released novel, Ten Small Beds. Her short fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, American Literary Review, Northwest Review, The Madison Review and two fiction anthologies: Side Show and Paraspheres.Read More
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John Kenyon
When: Saturday, July 16, 10:30 a.m.
Location: Third Floor North Discussion, UI Main Library
John Kenyon is responsible for all editorial content of the weekly Corridor Business Journal as its editor, as well as for the group’s other media products, including contract publications and web-based outlets. Duties include generating assignments, editing content and general oversight of writing staff and freelancers, consultation with other departments...Read More
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Khaled Khalifa
Khaled Khalifa (screenwriter, novelist; Syria) has written extensively for film and television and authored three novels (titled, in translation 'The Guard of Deception,' 1993; The Gypsy Notebooks, 2000; and In Praise of Hatred, 2006), which have been published in multiple editions in the Arab world.Read More
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Julie Kramer
When: Saturday, July 16, 11:45 p.m.
Location: Third Floor North Discussion, UI Main Library
Website: http://www.juliekramerbooks.com/As a fourth generation farmer, Julie Kramer grew up on the Minnesota-Iowa state line raising cattle and farming corn. Her favorite days were spent waiting for the bookmobile to deliver her another Phyllis A. Whitney novel.Read More
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Colleen Bradford Krantz
Colleen Bradford Krantz spent a decade reporting for daily newspapers such as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and The Des Moines Register. Now an independent journalist, Colleen has written her first book, "Train to Nowhere; Inside an Immigrant Death Investigation." The book was the starting point for an...Read More
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John Langhorne
When: Saturday, July 16, 12:45 p.m.
Location: Second Floor West Discussion, UI Main Library
Website: http://www.beyondluck.net/John Langhorne started Langhorne Associates in 1984. Since then, he has worked with leaders and managers in more than 300 private-sector companies as well as many nonprofits and public-sector organizations. He has experience in a wide variety of companies and 25+ years of knowledge of effective practices.Read More
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Cara Lockwood
When: Saturday, July 16, 1:30 p.m.
Location: Second Floor North Lounge, UI Main Library
Website: http://www.bardacademy.com/index.htmlI was so excited when I bought my first book (age 3) that my mom left the car light on so I could read it on the way home.Read More
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Stephen Lovely
When: Sunday, July 17, 1:00 p.m.
Location: Discerning Eye
Website: http://www.stephenlovely.comStephen Lovely was born in Dallas, Texas and spent most of his childhood in Ohio. He attended Kenyon College, where he majored in English and made his first awkward forays into fiction writing. After graduating from Kenyon he moved to Boston and spent two years working on the editorial staff...Read More
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Robin Lovin
When: Sunday, July 17, 4:00 p.m.
Location: Congregational United Church of Christ
Robin W. Lovin is Cary Maguire University Professor of Ethics at Southern Methodist University. He joined the SMU faculty in July, 1994, and served as Dean of Perkins School of Theology from 1994-2002. From 1991-94, he was Dean at the Theological School of Drew University in Madison, New Jersey.Read More
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Stephen J. Lyons
When: Saturday, July 16, 10:15 a.m.
Location: South Patio, Gibson Square
Stephen J. Lyons is the author of three books of non fiction: "Landscape of the Heart," "A View from the Inland Northwest," and "The 1,000-Year Flood: Destruction, Loss, Rescue, and Redemption along the Mississippi River." Commenting on A View from the Inland Northwest, Bill McKibben wrote, "The landscape of the...Read More
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Shane McCrae
When: Saturday, July 16, 5:00 p.m.
Location: Shambaugh Auditorium, UI Main Library
Shane McCrae is the author of "Mule" (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011), and two chapbooks, "One Neither One" (Octopus Books, 2009) and "In Canaan" (Rescue Press, 2010). His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in "The Best American Poetry 2010", The American Poetry Review, Fence, Agni, Denver Quarterly, and others.Read More
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Claudia McGehee
When: Sunday, July 17, 1:30 p.m.
Location: UI Museum of Natural History
Claudia McGehee of Iowa City is the author of A Tallgrass Prairie Alphabet (Iowa, 2004), which was named a Midwest Favorite by the Upper Midwest Booksellers Association, and A Woodland Counting Book (Iowa, 2006), a Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards Gold Medal Winner.Read More
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J. Harley McIlrath
J. Harley McIlrath lives in Grinnell, Iowa, where he is book buyer for the Grinnell College Bookstore and Pioneer Bookshop. His fiction has appeared in the North American Review, the Seneca Reveiw, the Wapsipinicon Almanac and elsewhere.Read More
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June Melby
When: Saturday, July 16, 2:30 p.m.
Location: First Floor West Discussion, UI Main Library
Website: http://www.junemelby.com/June Melby’s writing has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, National Lampoon Magazine, The LA Weekly, Versal Magazine,and has been featured on NPR. She worked as a standup comedian in Los Angeles for twelve years and has appeared regularly at the Improv, The Comedy Store, and on many tours in the U.S.Read More
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Tom Montgomery Fate
When: Sunday, July 17, 2:00 p.m.
Location: Congregational United Church of Christ
Website: http://tommontgomeryfate.com/Tom Montgomery Fate is the author of five books of nonfiction, including Beyond the White Noise (1997), a collection of essays, Steady and Trembling (2005), a spiritual memoir, and Cabin Fever (2011), a nature memoir. His essays have appeared in The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, The Baltimore Sun, Orion,...Read More
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David Phillip Mullins
When: Saturday, July 16, 10:45 a.m.
Location: First Floor West, UI Main Library
Website: http://davidphilipmullins.com/Home.htmlDavid Mullins is the author of Greetings from Below (2011), published in Sarabande, Louisville. It is a series of short stories that explore the perversities of sex, love, death, and compulsion. It won the 2009 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction.Read More
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Cornelia Mutel
When: Sunday, July 17, 1:30 p.m.
Location: UI Museum of Natural History
Ecologist Cornelia Mutel has written or edited several books on Iowa's natural history, most recently The Emerald Horizon: The History of Nature in Iowa (2008); Iowa's first comprehensive environmental history. As well as A Watershed Year: Anatomy of the Iowa Floods of 2008 (2010).Read More
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Jennifer New
Jennifer New is a writer, yoga instructor and mother of two incredible children. She serves as the Assistant Director of the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Iowa. Her third book, Dan Eldon: Safari as a Way of Life, will be published by Chronicle Books this fall.Read More
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Thisbe Nissen
When: Saturday, July 16, 10:45 a.m.
Location: First Floor West, UI Main Library
Thisbe Nissen is the author of two novels, The Good People of New York (Knopf, 2001) and Osprey Island (Knopf, 2004), and a story collection, Out of the Girls’ Room and into the Night (University of Iowa Press, 1999, Winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award).Read More
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Edith Pearlman
When: Saturday, July 16, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Special Collections & Iowa Women's Archives, UI Main Library
Website: http://www.edithpearlman.com/index.htmEdith Pearlman is the author of Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories (2011), which was published by Lookout Books in Wilmington, NC. "Pearlman's view of the world is large and compassionate, delivered through small, beautifully precise moments." Roxana Robinson. How to Fall (2005) was published by Sarabande Books in Louisville, KY. ...Read More
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Andre Perry
When: Saturday, July 16, 4:15 p.m.
Location: Third Floor North Discussion, UI Main Library
Andre Perry is a writer and nonprofit arts enthusiast. He currently serves as the Executive Director of the Englert Theatre in Iowa City where he programs concerts, lectures, readings, theater productions, films, and avant-garde performances. He is also the president of the annual Mission Creek Festival in Iowa City and...Read More
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John T. Price
When: Saturday, July 16, 10:30 a.m.
Location: Special Collections Reading Room
John T. Price is the author of the memoirs Man Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships (Da Capo Press, 2008) and Not Just Any Land: A Personal and Literary Journey into the American Grasslands (U. of Nebraska Press, 2004).Read More
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Lauren Reece Flaum
Lauren Reece Flaum is a native New Yorker who has spent the last 23 years living, writing, and raising her family in Iowa City. She has published essays on golf, school board governance, and living life with breast cancer. Her essay "Inga" won first prize in Redbook's breast cancer essay competition.Read More
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Josh Rolnick
When: Saturday, July 16, 1:45 p.m.
Location: Third Floor North Discussion, UI Main Library
Josh Rolnick is the author of Pulp and Paper (Forthcoming 2011), published at the University of Iowa Press, Iowa City. His book discusses unsentimental stories about hardship, common courage, and finding a way forward, conjuring the subtle, fragile moments when people are not yet whole, but no longer quite as broken.Read More
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Robin Romm
When: Saturday, July 16, 1:15 p.m.
Location: First Floor West Discussion, UI Main Library
Website: http://www.robinromm.com/An Oregon native, Robin Romm spent time as a federal investigator in San Francisco after studying creative writing at Brown University. Her stories have been published in Tin House, One Story, and Threepenny Review. Romm’s first story collection, The Mother Garden (2007), was a finalist for the PEN USA prize...Read More
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Robyn Schiff
When: Sunday, July 17, 3:00 p.m.
Location: Catherine's 7 South Dubuque Street
Robyn Schiff is the author of the poetry collections Revolver (2008) and Worth (2002), both published by the University of Iowa Press, Kuhl House Poets series. Her work has been represented in several anthologies, including Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande, 2006), Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts...Read More
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Laurel Snyder
When: Saturday, July 16, 12:40 p.m.
Location: Children's Tent, Gibson Square
Website: http://laurelsnyder.com/Laurel Snyder is the author of three novels for children, “Penny Dreadful,” “Any Which Wall” and “Up and Down the Scratchy Mountains OR The Search for a Suitable Princess” (Random House) and two picture books, “Inside the Slidy Diner” and “Baxter the Kosher Pig.” (Tricycle).Read More
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Mary Helen Stefaniak
When: Saturday, July 16 , 11:00 a.m.
Location: Shambaugh Auditorium Author Series, UI Main Library
Website: http://www.maryhelenstefaniak.com/index.htmMary Helen Stefaniak is a writer of fiction and essays whose work has appeared in many publications, including The Iowa Review, EPOCH, Short Story, The Yale Review, AGNI, and The Antioch Review, and in several anthologies, including New Stories from the South: The Year's Best 2000 & 2006 (Algonquin Books)...Read More
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Bob Wachal
I was born the day before pi in 1929. After earning my doctorate, I taught at UIowa from 1996-1997.Read More
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Don Waters
When: Saturday, July 16, 1:45 p.m.
Location: Third Floor North Discussion, UI Main Library
Website: http://www.donwaters.com/Don Waters was born and raised in Reno, Nevada, and now lives in Berkeley, California. He wrote Desert Gothic (2007), which was published at the University of Iowa Press. It is a powerful collection, set in the light-filled deserts of Nevada and Arizona, which introduces a darkly inventive new voice. He...Read More
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Tess Weaver
When: Saturday, July 16, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Children's Tent, Gibson Square
Website: http://www.tessweaver.com/Tess Weaver is the author of four children’s picture books: Opera Cat; Cat Jumped In!; Frederick Finch, Loudmouth; and Encore, Opera Cat! Opera Cat is currently being adapted into a musical for children’s theatre. Tess has a master of arts in expository writing from the University of Iowa, and worked...Read More
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Rebecca Wee
When: Sunday, July 17, 4:00 p.m.
Location: RSVP, 140 N. Linn Street
Rebecca Wee earned her MFA from George Mason University and has since received several awards for her poetry, including the 2000 Hayden Carruth Award for new and emerging poets for her first book of poems, Uncertain Grace.Read More
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Rv. Xen
When: Saturday, July 16, 12:15 p.m.
Location: Second Floor North Lounge
Website: http://rvxen.deviantart.com/Shane O'Shaughnessy, under the pen name of Rv. Xen, has been a comics fan and creator since childhood. His most significant works include a satiric reworking of the Batman mythos, focusing on aspects of creative license within media, entitled "Bat-Maloy: What's Left of BoB Kane" (2005), and also the more...Read More
