The University of Iowa Writers' Workshop was the first creative writing degree program in the United States, and since its founding in 1936, the program has been home to thousands of remarkable writers. The program claims among its graduates winners of virtually every major literary award, including seventeen winners of the Pulitzer Prize (most recently Paul Harding in 2010), six recent U.S. Poets Laureate, and numerous winners of the National Book Award, MacArthur Foundation Fellowships, and other major honors. Every year, workshop graduates publish books across the genres, including these recent works of fiction & nonfiction by Workshop alumni and faculty:
Pushing Perfect, Michelle Falkoff
Winter Storms, Elin Hilderbrand
The Fate of the Tearling, Erika Johansen
A Truck Full of Money, Tracy Kidder
My Lost Poets: A Life in Poetry, Philip Levine
Shelter in Place, Alexander Maksik
How Fast Can You Run, Harriet Levin Millan
Am I Alone Here? Notes on Living to Read, and Reading to Live, Peter Orner
Diving Makes the Water Deep, Zach Savich
Island of the Mad, Laurie Sheck
The Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Time, Steven Sherrill
The Secret Keepers, Trenton Lee Stewart
The Fortress: A Love Story, Danielle Trussoni
The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult, Jerald Walker
Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File, John Edgar Wideman
(Workshop alumni, please write to iww@uiowa.edu to share news or information about upcoming publications!)