Writers

Jayne Anne Phillips

Pulitzer Prize (2024)

Fiction | Alumni | Iowa Writers' Workshop

https://writersworkshop.uiowa.edu/news/2024/05/jayne-anne-phillips-wins-2024-pu…

D.A. Powell

Poetry | Alumni | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Faculty

https://writersworkshop.uiowa.edu/people/da-powell

Srikanth (Chicu) Reddy

Poetry | Alumni | Iowa Writers' Workshop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srikanth_Reddy

Marilynne Robinson

Pulitzer Prize (2005)

Fiction | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop

http://litcity.lib.uiowa.edu/person/marilynne-robinson/

Brian Ross

Journalism | Alumni | School of Journalism and Mass Communication

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Ross_(journalist)

Philip Roth

Pulitzer Prize (1998)

Fiction | Alumni | Iowa Writers' Workshop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Roth

Mary Ruefle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ruefle

Joe Russo

Fiction | English Department | Alumni

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0751648/

Avengers: Endgame (2019), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014); director

Tomaž Šalamun

Poetry | International Writing Program | Alumni

http://litcity.lib.uiowa.edu/person/tomaz-salamun/

Robyn Schiff

Poetry | Alumni | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop

https://writersworkshop.uiowa.edu/people/robyn-schiff

Karl Shapiro

Pulitzer Prize (1945)

Poetry | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Faculty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Shapiro

Eleni Sikelianos

Poetry | International Writing Program | Faculty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleni_Sikelianos

Bennett Sims

Fiction | Faculty | English Department | Alumni | Iowa Writers' Workshop

https://english.uiowa.edu/people/bennett-sims

Curtis Sittenfeld

Fiction | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Sittenfeld

Jane Smiley

Pulitzer Prize (1992)

Fiction | Alumni | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Faculty

http://litcity.lib.uiowa.edu/person/jane-smiley/

W.D. Snodgrass

Pulitzer Prize (1960)

Poetry | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._D._Snodgrass

William Stafford

Poetry | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni | English Department

https://poets.org/poet/william-stafford

Wallace Stegner

Pulitzer Prize (1972)

Poetry | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Stegner

Mark Strand

Pulitzer Prize (1999)

Poetry | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Strand

James Tate

Pulitzer Prize (1992)

Poetry | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop

http://litcity.lib.uiowa.edu/person/james-tate/

Edwin Thumboo

Poetry | International Writing Program | Alumni

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Thumboo

Merritt Tierce

Fiction | Screenwriting | Alumni | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merritt_Tierce

Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019), screenplay

Michael F. Toner

Journalism | School of Journalism | Alumni

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Toner

Justin Torres

Fiction | Alumni | Iowa Writers' Workshop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Torres

Don Ultang

Journalism | Alumni | School of Journalism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Ultang

Mona Van Duyn

Pulitzer Prize (1991)

Poetry | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni | Faculty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Van_Duyn

Abraham Verghese

Fiction | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni

http://litcity.lib.uiowa.edu/person/abraham-verghese/

Marcos M. Villatoro

Poetry | Fiction | Nonfiction | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcos_Villatoro

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Fiction | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Faculty

http://litcity.lib.uiowa.edu/person/kurt-vonnegut-jr/

Margaret Walker

Poetry | Fiction | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni

https://litcity.lib.uiowa.edu/person/margaret-walker/