Writers

Tracy Kidder
Title/Position
Poetry | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni

W.P. Kinsella
Title/Position
Fiction | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni

Carolyn Kizer
Title/Position
Poetry | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Faculty

Philip Levine
Title/Position
Poetry | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Faculty

Yiyun Li
Title/Position
Fiction | Nonfiction | Alumni | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Nonfiction Writing Program

Bruna Dantas Lobato
Title/Position
Alumni | Translation | Translation Workshop

Dick Locher
Title/Position
Journalism | Alumni | School of Journalism

Claire Lombardo
Title/Position
Fiction | Alumni | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop

Layli Long Soldier
Title/Position
Poetry | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop

Robert Lowell
Title/Position
Poetry | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop

Carmen Maria Machado
Title/Position
Fiction | Alumni | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop

Haki R. Madhubuti
Title/Position
Poetry | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni

Elizabeth McCracken
Title/Position
Fiction | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Faculty | Alumni

James Alan McPherson
Title/Position
Fiction | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop

Ana Merino
Title/Position
Poetry | Fiction | Spanish Creative Writing MFA | Translation | Faculty

Christopher Merrill
Title/Position
Poetry | Faculty | International Writing Program

Nicholas Meyer
Title/Position
Playwriting | Screenwriting | Alumni | Playwrights Workshop
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), screenplay, director; Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976), screenplay

David Milch
Title/Position
Alumni | Fiction | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Screenwriting
Deadwood (2004-2006), Hill Street Blues (1981-1987), NYPD Blue (1993-2005), True Detective (2014-2024)

Kei Miller
Title/Position
Poetry | International Writing Program | Alumni

Frank Luther Mott
Title/Position
Journalism | Faculty | School of Journalism

Luis Muñoz
Title/Position
Faculty | Spanish Creative Writing MFA | Poetry

H.M. Naqvi
Title/Position
Fiction | International Writing Program | Alumni

Peter Nazareth
Title/Position
Fiction | Nonfiction | International Writing Program | Faculty | Alumni | English Department

Herbert Nipson
Title/Position
Journalism | School of Journalism | Alumni

Alice Notley
Title/Position
Poetry | Fiction | Alumni | Iowa Writers' Workshop

Flannery O'Connor
Title/Position
Fiction | Alumni | Iowa Writers' Workshop

John O'Keefe
Title/Position
Playwriting | Alumni | Playwrights Workshop

ZZ Packer
Title/Position
Fiction | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni | Faculty

Orhan Pamuk
Title/Position
Fiction | International Writing Program | Alumni

Ann Patchett
Title/Position
Fiction | Alumni | Iowa Writers' Workshop