List of Iowa Writers' Workshop people

This list of Iowa Writers' Workshop people is a list of people affiliated with the Program in Creative Writing, more commonly known as the Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa, a graduate-level creative writing program.

Alumni

Notable alumni of the program include:

• Seth Abramson
• Chris Adrian
• Daniel Alarcon
• Benjamin Anastas
• Jon Anderson
• Antler (did not graduate)
• Robert Antoni
• Nick Arvin
• Reza Aslan
• Kirsten Bakis
• Tom Barbash
• Emily Barton
• Richard Bausch
• Stephen Beachy
• Dan Beachy-Quick
• Marvin Bell
• Karen Bender
• Suzanne Berne
• Eula Biss^[1]
• Ryan Blacketter
• Clark Blaise
• Brett Ellen Block
• Jonathan Blum
• Robert Bly
• T. Coraghessan Boyle
• Kevin Brockmeier
• Bruce Brooks
• Nic Brown
• Suzanne Buffam
• Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
• Sara Caldwell
• Ethan Canin
• Raymond Carver (did not graduate)
• John Casey
• Eleanor Catton
• Lan Samantha Chang
• Alexander Chee
• Kate Christensen
• Eddie Chuculate
• Sandra Cisneros
• Joshua Clover
• Arda Collins
• Peter Cooley
• Jane Cooper
• Eduardo C. Corral
• Henri Coulette
• Dennis Covington
• Peter Craig
• Justin Cronin
• Mary Crow
• Michael Cunningham
• Charles D'Ambrosio
• Robert Dana
• Terry Davis
• Alex Dezen
• William Dickey
• Stephen Dobyns
• Rita Dove
• Norman Dubie
• Andre Dubus
• Michael Dumanis
• Stuart Dybek
• Kim Edwards
• Nathan Englander
• Paul Engle
• Steven Erikson
• Joe Frank
• John Gardner
• Robert Girardi
• Diane Glancy
• Gail Godwin
• Albert Goldbarth
• Jorie Graham
• Lucy Grealy
• Robin Green
• Debora Greger
• Linda Gregerson
• Dan Guenther
• Allan Gurganus
• Jennifer Haigh
• Joe Haldeman
• Benjamin Hale
• Douglas Kent Hall
• Oakley Hall
• Patricia Hampl
• Ron Hansen
• Kate Myers Hanson
• Colin Harrison
• Kathryn Harrison
• Kent Haruf
• Matthea Harvey
• Adam Haslett
• Daniel Hecht
• Cristina Henríquez
• Sarah Heyward
• Elin Hilderbrand
• Brenda Hillman
• A.M. Homes
• Cathy Park Hong
• Jay Hopler
• Pai Hsien-yung
• James Hynes
• John Irving
• Jeremy Jackson
• Mark Jarman
• Gish Jen
• Rebecca Johns
• Denis Johnson
• Kimberly Johnson
• Thom Jones
• Donald Justice
• Claudia Keelan
• Suji Kwock Kim
• W.P. Kinsella
• Steve Kistulentz
• William Kittredge
• Joanna Klink
• Sana Krasikov
• Robert Lacy
• William Lashner
• Zachary Lazar
• Nam Le
• Katy Lederer
• Rebecca Lee
• Philip Levine
• Larry Levis
• Yiyun Li
• Frannie Lindsay
• Paul Lisicky
• William Logan
• David Wong Louie
• Stephen Lovely
• Thomas Lux
• Haki R. Madhubuti
• Dora Malech
• Sarah Manguso
• Cate Marvin
• Ayana Mathis
• Aaron McCollough
• Elizabeth McCracken
• Shane McCrae
• Tom McHale
• David Milch
• Leslie Adrienne Miller
• Kyle Minor
• Paula Morris
• Dow Mossman
• Bharati Mukherjee
• John Murray
• Thisbe Nissen
• Alice Notley
• Geoffrey Nutter
• Flannery O'Connor
• Chris Offutt
• Chinelo Okparanta
• Lance Olsen
• Thomas O'Malley
• Peter Orner
• Julie Orringer
• Ann Packer
• ZZ Packer
• Hannah Sanghee Park
• Ann Patchett
• Bradley Paul
• Sam Pereira
• Bob Perelman
• Aimee Phan
• Jayne Anne Phillips
• Andrew J. Porter
• D. A. Powell
• Lia Purpura
• Scott Raab
• Loree Rackstraw
• Holiday Reinhorn
• Lewis Robinson
• Matthew Rohrer
• Will Schmitz
• David St. John
• Leonard Schrader
• Philip Schultz
• Bob Shacochis
• David Shields
• Maggie Shipstead
• Robert Anthony Siegel
• Jim Simmerman
• Curtis Sittenfeld
• Jane Smiley
• W.D. Snodgrass
• Wallace Stegner
• Richard G. Stern
• Trenton Lee Stewart
• Mark Strand
• Mary Swander
• Robert Sward
• Anthony Swofford
• Mary Szybist
• Whitney Terrell
• Walter Tevis
• Jonathan Thirkield
• Edilberto K. Tiempo
• Justin Torres
• Danielle Trussoni
• Lewis Turco
• Justin Tussing
• Chase Twichell
• Michael Tyrell
• Brady Udall
• Leslie Ullman
• W.D. Valgardson
• Jennifer Vanderbes
• William Veeder
• Abraham Verghese
• Jeff Vintar
• Ellen Bryant Voigt
• Peter Waldor
• Margaret Walker
• Barrett Watten
• John Edgar Wideman
• Joy Williams
• Thomas Williams
• Antoine Wilson
• Sam Witt
• Ellen Wittlinger
• Daniel Woodrell
• Charles Wright
• Rachel Zucker

Faculty

Fiction writers

Nelson Algren Jonathan Ames Madison Smartt Bell Vance Bourjaily T. Coraghessan Boyle Kevin Brockmeier C.D.B. Bryan Ethan Canin Edward Carey Raymond Carver John Casey R.V. Cassill John Cheever Frank Conroy Robert Coover Jim Crace Charles D'Ambrosio Nicholas Delbanco Stuart Dybek Deborah Eisenberg Tony Eprile William Price Fox, Jr. Judith Grossman Barry Hannah Ron Hansen Adam Haslett James Hynes

John Irving Thom Jones John Leggett Margot Livesey Robie Macauley Paule Marshall Elizabeth McCracken James Alan McPherson Paula Morris Bharati Mukherjee Chris Offutt ZZ Packer Francine Prose Marilynne Robinson Philip Roth James Salter Bob Shacochis Jane Smiley Scott Spencer Elizabeth Tallent Barry Unsworth Jennifer Vanderbes Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Joy Williams Meg Wolitzer Richard Yates

Nonfiction writers

John D'Agata Richard Gehman Kerry Howley Inara Verzemnieks Lucas Mann

Poets

Simon Armitage John Ash Marvin Bell Ted Berrigan John Berryman Gillian Conoley Mark Doty Norman Dubie Lynn Emanuel Paul Engle Kathleen Fraser James Galvin Forrest Gander Louise Gluck Jorie Graham Oscar Hahn Robert Hass Anthony Hecht Lyn Hejinian Brenda Hillman Anselm Hollo Donald Justice Claudia Keelan Galway Kinnell Carolyn Kizer August Kleinzahler Sukrita Paul Kumar

Ann Lauterbach Mark Levine Larry Levis Robert Lowell Thomas Lux Jack Marshall Heather McHugh Sandra McPherson Sam Pereira Bob Perelman Carl Phillips Stanley Plumly Claudia Rankine Donald Revell Mary Ruefle Will Schmitz Tom Sleigh Gerald Stern Mark Strand Robert Sward Cole Swensen Thomas Swiss Mary Szybist James Tate Susan Wheeler Emily Wilson C.D. Wright Dean Young

References

1. http://www.english.northwestern.edu/people/biss.html