Meet the IUWC Workshop Faculty

Interested in receiving personalized feedback from top writers? The Indiana University Writers’ Conference will host workshops in poetry, fiction, and memoir to help conference participants take their writing to the next level.

Poetry Workshop with Maggie Smith

Maggie Smith’s most recent book of poetry, Good Bones (Tupelo Press, 2017), was named one of the Best Five Poetry Books of 2017 by The Washington Post and won the 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal in Poetry. The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo Press, 2015) was the winner of the 2012 Dorset Prize and the 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal in Poetry. Lamp of the Body (Red Hen Press, 2005) was the winner of the 2003 Benjamin Saltman Award. Her latest book, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change (One Signal/Simon & Schuster 2020), is a collection of essays and quotes, and a national bestseller. A new collection of poems, Goldenrod, will be released by One Signal/Simon & Schuster on July 27th, 2021.

Her poems and essays have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Best American Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, and many other publications. Smith holds both a BA from Ohio Wesleyan University and MFA from The Ohio State University. She previously taught creative writing courses at Gettysburg College, Ohio Wesleyan University, The Ohio State University’s MFA and undergraduate programs, and at Antioch University Los Angeles. She currently teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Spalding University.

Fiction Workshop with ZZ Packer

ZZ Packer, an award-winning writer, will join this year’s IUWC Faculty for a fiction workshop. ZZ Packer is a graduate of Yale University (BA), the Iowa University Writers’ Workshop (MFA), the Writing Seminar at John Hopkins University (MA), as well as a Stanford University Stegner Fellow. She was recognized for her writing at the age of 19 with her first significant publication in Seventeen Magazine. She published the title story of her short story collection, “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere,” in the Debut Fiction issue of The New Yorker (2000). Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (Riverhead Books) was published in 2003.

Her writing has won multiple awards and recognitions, including mention as a New York Times Notable Book. She was the winner of a Commonwealth Club Fiction Award, an Alex Award, and a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist. Her works have been published in the American Prospect, the Guardian, the New York Times Magazine, the Oxford American, and the Washington Post Magazine. She has also been recognized as one of the “Writers to Watch” in Book magazine’s special “Newcomers” issue and included in The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” list of fiction writers.

Memoir Workshop with Jaquira Díaz

Jaquira Díaz’s Ordinary Girls is a memoir about coming of age in Puerto Rico and Miami. Her memoir has received many awards including the prestigious Whiting Award in Nonfiction, and a Florida Book Awards gold medal. It was a finalist for a 2020 Lambda Literary Award. Her work has been published in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The New York Times Style Magazine, and others.

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Díaz earned her MFA in creative writing from the University of South Florida in Tampa. She was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s MFA Program in Creative Writing and Consulting Editor at the Kenyon Review. In an interview with Tampa Bay Times, she says she saw writing as “a way of surviving, dreaming of some other life.” She is excited to share her experiences with this year’s workshop participants. She reflected on the workshop experience as a way to “help you grow as a writer, no matter how long the process takes.”

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Whether you are ready to publish, looking for feedback on a recent project, or new to writing altogether and looking for inspiration, these workshops can help take your work to the next level. There is still time to register for this year’s conference!