Writers

D.A. Powell
Title/Position
Poetry | Alumni | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Faculty

Srikanth (Chicu) Reddy
Title/Position
Poetry | Alumni | Iowa Writers' Workshop

Marilynne Robinson
Title/Position
Fiction | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop

Brian Ross
Title/Position
Journalism | Alumni | School of Journalism and Mass Communication

Philip Roth
Title/Position
Fiction | Alumni | Iowa Writers' Workshop

Mary Ruefle
Title/Position
Poetry | Nonfiction | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Nonfiction Writing Program | Alumni | Faculty

Joe Russo
Title/Position
Fiction | English Department | Alumni
Avengers: Endgame (2019), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014); director

Tomaž Šalamun
Title/Position
Poetry | International Writing Program | Alumni

Robyn Schiff
Title/Position
Poetry | Alumni | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop

Karl Shapiro
Title/Position
Poetry | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Faculty

Eleni Sikelianos
Title/Position
Poetry | International Writing Program | Faculty

Bennett Sims
Title/Position
Fiction | Faculty | English Department | Alumni | Iowa Writers' Workshop

Curtis Sittenfeld
Title/Position
Fiction | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni

Jane Smiley
Title/Position
Fiction | Alumni | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Faculty

W.D. Snodgrass
Title/Position
Poetry | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni

William Stafford
Title/Position
Poetry | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni | English Department

Mark Strand
Title/Position
Poetry | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni

James Tate
Title/Position
Poetry | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop

Edwin Thumboo
Title/Position
Poetry | International Writing Program | Alumni

Merritt Tierce
Title/Position
Fiction | Screenwriting | Alumni | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop
Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019), screenplay

Michael F. Toner
Title/Position
Journalism | School of Journalism | Alumni

Justin Torres
Title/Position
Fiction | Alumni | Iowa Writers' Workshop

Don Ultang
Title/Position
Journalism | Alumni | School of Journalism

Mona Van Duyn
Title/Position
Poetry | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni | Faculty

Abraham Verghese
Title/Position
Fiction | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni

Marcos M. Villatoro
Title/Position
Poetry | Fiction | Nonfiction | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Title/Position
Fiction | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Faculty

Margaret Walker
Title/Position
Poetry | Fiction | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni

Naomi Wallace
Title/Position
Iowa Writers' Workshop | Playwrights Workshop | Poetry | Playwriting | Alumni

Robert Penn Warren
Title/Position
Fiction | Poetry | Nonfiction | Journalism | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni | Faculty