Notable Faculty & Alumni
The University of Iowa claims among its faculty and graduates winners of virtually every major literary award, including the Nobel Prize in Literature, Pulitzer Prize, many recent U.S. Poets Laureate and others.
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Chris Adrian
Title/Position
Fiction | Alumni | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop
Aron Aji
Title/Position
Faculty | Translation Workshop | Translation
Kaveh Akbar
Title/Position
Poetry | Faculty | English Department
Taleb al-Refai
Title/Position
Fiction | Alumni | International Writing Program
Sherman Alexie
Title/Position
Poetry | Iowa Writers' Workshop
Karim Alrawi
Title/Position
Fiction | International Writing Program
Udupi R Ananthamurthy
Title/Position
Fiction | Poetry | Alumni | International Writing Program
Gun-Aajav Ayurzana
Title/Position
Poetry | International Writing Program | Alumni
Dean Bakopoulos
Title/Position
Faculty | Cinema Arts | Screenwriting
John Banville
Title/Position
International Writing Program | Poetry | Alumni
Sebastian Barry
Title/Position
Fiction | Poetry | Dramatic Writing
Dan Beachy-Quick
Title/Position
Poetry | Nonfiction | Alumni | Faculty | Translation | Iowa Writers' Workshop
Jo Ann Beard
Title/Position
Nonfiction | Alumni | Nonfiction Writing Program
Scott Beck
Title/Position
Alumni | Screenwriting | Communication Studies
Marvin Bell
Title/Position
Poetry | Alumni | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop
Mildred Wirt Benson
Title/Position
Pen name: "Nancy Drew" | Fiction | Journalism | Alumni | School of Journalism
Steve Berry
Title/Position
Journalism | Faculty | School of Journalism
Venise Berry
Title/Position
Fiction | Journalism | School of Journalism
John Berryman
Title/Position
Pulitzer Prize (1965)
Poetry | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop
Eula Biss
Title/Position
Nonfiction | Alumni | Nonfiction Writing Program
Robert Bly
Title/Position
Poetry | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Faculty
Eavan Boland
Title/Position
Poetry | International Writing Program | Faculty
Susan Boyd
Title/Position
Poetry | Alumni | Iowa Writers' Workshop
T. C. Boyle
Title/Position
Fiction | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni | Faculty
Tom Brokaw
Title/Position
Journalism | Alumni | School of Journalism
Suzanne Buffam
Title/Position
Poetry | Alumni | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop
Mitchell Burgess
Title/Position
Fiction | Screenwriting | Alumni | Iowa Writers' Workshop
Robert Olen Butler
Title/Position
Pulitzer Prize (1993)
Fiction | Playwriting | Alumni | Playwrights Workshop
Lila Byock
Title/Position
Fiction | Screenwriting | Alumni | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop
John Camp (John Sandford)
Title/Position
Journalism | School of Journalism | Alumni
Ethan Canin
Title/Position
Fiction | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop
Edward Carey
Title/Position
Fiction | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop | International Writing Program
Raymond Carver
Title/Position
Fiction | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni
Eleanor Catton
Title/Position
Fiction | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni | Faculty
Lan Samantha Chang
Title/Position
Fiction | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop
John Cheever
Title/Position
Pulitzer Prize (1979)
Fiction | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop
Marquis Childs
Title/Position
Pulitzer Prize (1970)
Journalism | School of Journalism | Alumni | Faculty
Rick Cleveland
Title/Position
Playwriting | Alumni | Playwrights Workshop
John Cochran
Title/Position
Journalism | Alumni | School of Journalism
Diablo Cody
Title/Position
Alumni | Screenwriting | Cinematic Arts
Max A Collins, Jr.
Title/Position
Fiction | Alumni | English Department | Iowa Writers' Workshop
Paul Conrad
Title/Position
Journalism | Alumni | School of Journalism
Frank Conroy
Title/Position
Fiction | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop
Jennifer Croft
Title/Position
Alumni | Translation | Translation Workshop
Nilo Cruz
Title/Position
Playwriting | Playwrights Workshop | Faculty
Michael Cunningham
Title/Position
Pulitzer Prize (1999)
Fiction | Alumni | Iowa Writers' Workshop
John D'Agata
Title/Position
Poetry | Nonfiction | Alumni | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Nonfiction Writing Program
Robert Dana
Title/Position
Poetry | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni | Faculty
Junot Diaz
Title/Position
Fiction | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Faculty
José Donoso
Title/Position
Alumni | Faculty | Fiction | Spanish Creative Writing MFA | International Writing Program
Rita Dove
Title/Position
Pulitzer Prize (1987)
Poetry | Alumni | Iowa Writers' Workshop
Andre Dubus
Title/Position
Fiction | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Faculty | Alumni
Andre Dubus III
Title/Position
Fiction | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni
Meenakshi Gigi Durham Durham
Title/Position
Faculty | School of Journalism | English | Fiction | Nonfiction
Charles d’Ambrosio
Title/Position
Fiction | Alumni | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Faculty
Hope Edelman
Title/Position
Nonfiction | Nonfiction Writing Program | Alumni
Cyprian Ekwensi
Title/Position
Fiction | International Writing Program | Alumni
Hualing Nieh Engle
Title/Position
Fiction | Alumni | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop | International Writing Program
Paul Engle
Title/Position
Poetry | Alumni | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop | International Writing Program
Melissa Febos
Title/Position
Nonfiction | Faculty | Nonfiction Writing Program
Norman Felton
Title/Position
Playwriting | Theater
James Galvin
Title/Position
Poetry | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni
Forrest Gander
Title/Position
Pulitzer Prize (2019)
Poetry | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Faculty
Rebecca Gilman
Title/Position
Playwriting | Alumni | Playwrights Workshop
Louise Glück
Title/Position
Pulitzer Prize (1993)
Poetry | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Faculty
Jorie Graham
Title/Position
Pulitzer Prize (1996)
Poetry | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni
Robin Green
Title/Position
Alumni | Fiction | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Screenwriting
Andrew Sean Greer
Title/Position
Pulitzer Prize (2018)
Fiction | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop
Allan Gurganus
Title/Position
Fiction | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop
Yaa Gyasi
Title/Position
Fiction | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni
Don Hall
Title/Position
Alumni | Screenwriting | School of Art, Art History and Design
W. David Hancock
Title/Position
Playwriting | Playwrights Workshop
Charles (C.G.) Hanzlicek
Title/Position
Poetry | Alumni | Iowa Writers' Workshop
Paul Harding
Title/Position
Pulitzer Prize (2010)
Fiction | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Faculty | Alumni
Joy Harjo
Title/Position
Poetry | Alumni | Iowa Writers' Workshop
Robert Hass
Title/Position
Pulitzer Prize (2008)
Poetry | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop
Anthony Hecht
Title/Position
Pulitzer Prize (1968)
Poetry | Faculty | Alumni | Iowa Writers' Workshop
Robin Hemley
Title/Position
Fiction | Nonfiction | Faculty | Nonfiction Writing Program
Whiti Hereaka
Title/Position
Fiction | International Writing Program | Alumni
Juan Felipe Herrera
Title/Position
Poetry | Alumni | Iowa Writers' Workshop
Sarah Heyward
Title/Position
Alumni | Fiction | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Screenwriting
Nathan Hill
Title/Position
Fiction | Alumni | English Department
Cathy Park Hong
Title/Position
Poetry | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni
Samuel D. Hunter
Title/Position
Playwriting | Alumni | Playwrights Workshop
John Irving
Title/Position
Fiction | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop
Leslie Jamison
Title/Position
Alumni | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Faculty | Nonfiction Writing Program | Nonfiction | Fiction
Josephine Johnson
Title/Position
Pulitzer Prize (1935)
Fiction | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Faculty
Donald Justice
Title/Position
Pulitzer Prize (1980)
Poetry | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop
Han Kang
Title/Position
Poetry | International Writing Program | Alumni
Tracy Kidder
Title/Position
Pulitzer Prize (1982)
Poetry | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni
W.P. Kinsella
Title/Position
Fiction | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni
Carolyn Kizer
Title/Position
Pulitzer Prize (1985)
Poetry | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Faculty
Philip Levine
Title/Position
Pulitzer Prize (1995)
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
Pulitzer Prize (1974)
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
Pulitzer Prize (1978)
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
David Milch
Title/Position
Alumni | Fiction | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Screenwriting
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
Jayne Anne Phillips
Title/Position
Pulitzer Prize (2024)
Fiction | Alumni | Iowa Writers' Workshop
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
Pulitzer Prize (2005)
Fiction | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop
Brian Ross
Title/Position
Journalism | Alumni | School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Philip Roth
Title/Position
Pulitzer Prize (1998)
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
Tomaž Šalamun
Title/Position
Poetry | International Writing Program | Alumni
Robyn Schiff
Title/Position
Poetry | Alumni | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop
Karl Shapiro
Title/Position
Pulitzer Prize (1945)
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
Pulitzer Prize (1992)
Fiction | Alumni | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Faculty
W.D. Snodgrass
Title/Position
Pulitzer Prize (1960)
Poetry | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni
William Stafford
Title/Position
Poetry | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni | English Department
Wallace Stegner
Title/Position
Pulitzer Prize (1972)
Poetry | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni
Mark Strand
Title/Position
Pulitzer Prize (1999)
Poetry | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni
James Tate
Title/Position
Pulitzer Prize (1992)
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
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