Meet the 2024 Faculty
T Kira Madden (Memoir Workshop)
T Kira Māhealani Madden is a Chinese, Kānaka Maoli writer, photographer, and amateur magician. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College and an BA in design and literature from Parsons School of Design and Eugene Lang College. She is the Founding Editor of No Tokens, a magazine of literature and art, and is a 2017 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in nonfiction literature from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has received fellowships from MacDowell, Hedgebrook, Tin House, DISQUIET, Summer Literary Seminars, and Yaddo, where she was selected for the 2017 Linda Collins Endowed Residency Award. Her debut memoir, LONG LIVE THE TRIBE OF FATHERLESS GIRLS, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, a finalist for the LAMBDA Literary Award for lesbian memoir, and is now in development as a feature film. Her debut novel, WHIDBEY, is forthcoming with Mariner/HarperCollins. Winner of the 2021 Judith A. Markowitz Award, there is no period in her name.
Jos Charles (Poetry Workshop)
Jos Charles is author of the poetry collections a Year & other poems (Milkweed Editions, 2022), feeld, a Pulitzer-finalist and winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series selected by Fady Joudah (Milkweed Editions, 2018), and Safe Space (Ahsahta Press, 2016). She is visiting faculty for UC RIverside’s Creative Writing Department and teaches as a part of Randolph College’s low-residency MFA program. She resides in Long Beach, CA.
Sequoia Nagamatsu (Fiction Workshop)
Sequoia Nagamatsu is the author of the National Bestselling novel, HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK (2022), a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and the story collection, WHERE WE GO WHEN ALL WE WERE IS GONE (2016). His work has appeared in publications such as Conjunctions, The Southern Review, ZYZZYVA, Tin House, Iowa Review, Lightspeed Magazine, and One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories, and has been listed as notable in Best American Non-Required Reading and the Best Horror of the Year. He teaches creative writing at Saint Olaf College and the Rainier Writing Workshop Low-Residency MFA program. He is originally from O’ahu, Hawaiʻi and the San Francisco Bay Area and currently lives in Minneapolis with his wife, the writer Cole Nagamatsu, their cat Kalahira, their real dog Fenris, and a Sony Aibo robot dog named Calvino. He is at work on two other novels.
torrin a. greathouse (Poetry Class)
torrin a. greathouse is a transgender cripple-punk poet and essayist. She received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota. Their work has been featured in Poetry Magazine, The Rumpus, the New York Times Magazine, Ploughshares, and The Kenyon Review. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Effing Foundation for Sex Positivity, Zoeglossia, and the University of Arizona Poetry Center. Her debut poetry collection, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (Milkweed Editions, 2020), was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award, CLMP Firecracker Award, and winner of the 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She teaches at the Rainier Writing Workshop, the low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University.
Angela Jackson-Brown (Fiction Class)
Angela Jackson-Brown is an award-winning writer, poet and playwright who is an Associate Professor in the creative writing program at Indiana University in Bloomington. She also teaches in the graduate program at the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University in Louisville, KY. She is a graduate of Troy University, Auburn University and the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University. She has published her short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry in journals like The Louisville Journal and the Appalachian Review. She is the author of Drinking From a Bitter Cup, House Repairs, When Stars Rain Down and The Light Always Breaks. Her novels have received starred reviews from the Library Journal and glowing reviews from Alabama Public Library, Buzzfeed, Parade Magazine, and Women’s Weekly, just to name a few. When Stars Rain Down was named a finalist for the 2021 David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction, longlisted for the Granum Foundation Award, and shortlisted for the 2022 Indiana Authors Award. In October of 2023, Angela’s next novel, Homeward, a follow-up to When Stars Rain Down, will be published by Harper Muse.
Grace Talusan (Nonfiction Class)
Grace Talusan teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program at Brown University. Her memoir, The Body Papers, won the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and the Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction. She earned an MFA from the University of California, Irvine and has taught at the University of Oregon, Tufts University, and Brandeis University, and for summer conferences such as the Kenyon Review Writers Week and Community of Writers. She has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright, US Artists, the Brother Thomas Fund, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and residencies such as MASS MoCA, Vermont Studio Center, and Hedgebrook. She is on the board of the National Book Critics Circle.
IUWC has a long history of hosting highly accomplished faculty.
2023
Marilyn Chin
Megan Giddings
Lars Horn
Alexander Weinstein
Taylor Johnson
Hannah Bae
Jaquira Díaz
2022
Melissa Febos
Shruti Swamy
Nicky Beer
José Vadi
Ross Gay
Peter Kispert
Lauren Harrison
Amelia Martens
Joy Priest
2021
Ross Gay
ZZ Packer
Maggie Smith
Jaquira Díaz
Brando Skyhorse
Tiana Clark
Hannah Bae
Joseph Cassara
Shawna Ayoub
2020
Cancelled due to COVID-19
2019
Héctor Tobar
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Meghan Daum
Lilliam Rivera
Jan-Henry Gray
Patrick Coleman
2018
Ada Limón
Kiese Laymon
Matthew Klam
Alison Gaylin
Jason Adam Katzenstein
Chanelle Benz
Ife-Chudeni A. Oputa
2017
Chris Abani
Morgan Parker
Mary Robinette Kowal
Alexander Weinstein
Amy Kurzweil
Rickey Laurentiis
2016
Wesley Chu
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
David Crabb
Dana Johnson
Amelia Martens
Walton Muyumba
Salvatore Scibona
2015
Lynda Barry
Lou Berney
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Dan Chaon
Adrian Matejka
Alissa Nutting
John-Paul Zaccarini
2014
Jami Attenberg
Sally Ball
Jim Elledge
T.M. McNally
Christine Sneed
Stephen Motika
2013
Arthur Phillips
Cathy Bowman
Scott Hutchins
Nathaniel Perry
Alix Lambert
Lloyd Suh
2012
Lynda Barry
Dan Chaon
Jean Thompson
Erin Belieu
Jenny Browne
Lou Berney
James Canary
2011
Tony Ardizonne
Lynda Barry
Dan Chaon
Gary Ferguson
Jill Godmilow
Patrick Rosal
Julia Story
2010
Josip Novakovich
Meg Wolitzer
Eileen Myles
Samrat Upadhyay
Ed Pavlic
Mia Leonin
Micah Ling
Dan Barden
2009
Julia Glass
Manuel Munoz
Aracelis Girmay
Alyce Miller
Tom Chiarello
Danit Brown
David Trinidad
2008
Donald Antrim
Karen Joy Fowler
Jean Valentine
Kevin Prufer
Tony Ardizzone
Alison Umminger
Ross Gay
Anne-Marie Oomen
2007
Khaled Mattawa
Matthew Klam
Catherine Bowman
Nicholas Dawidoff
Crystal Wilkinson
Adam Langer
Heather McHugh,
Lee Martin
2006
Amy Bloom
Richard McCann
David Kirby
Barbara Hamby
Dana Johnson
Mark Wunderlich
Tyehimba Jess
2005
Tony Ardizzone
Mark Axelrod
Carol Bly
Cynie Cory
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Ruth Ellen Kocher
Yusef Komunyakaa
David Lazar
David Leavitt
Brian Leung
Martha Rhodes
Maura Stanton
2004
Thomas Glave
Patricia Henley
Li-Young Lee
Alyce Miller
Jean Thompson
Terrance Hayes
Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Michael Martone
Maureen Seaton
Karen Volkman
2003
Aimee Bender
Marilyn Chin
Elizabeth Dewberry
Amy Locklin
Clint McCown
David Wright
Robert Olen Butler
Alison Hawthorne Deming
Brenda Hillman
A. Loudermilk
Achy Obejas
Kevin Young
2002
Mark Doty
Molly Giles
Andrew Hudgins
Paul Lisicky
Manuel Luis Martinez
Michael Martone
Erin McGraw
Reginald McKnight
Roger Mitchell
Lucia Perillo
Karen Volkman
2001
Barrie Jean Borich
John Dufresne
Jim Grimsley,
Alyce Miller
Ernesto Quiñonez
Jean Valentine
Cindy Chinelly
Beth Ann Fennelly
Shirlene Holmes
Susan Mitchell
Alan Shapiro
2000
Jonis Agee
Tony Ardizzone
Jim Elledge
Kate Daniels
C.J. Hribal
Timothy Liu
Beckian Fritz Goldberg
John Keene
Susan Neville
Kevin Stein
Michael Martone
Romayne Rubinas
1999
Catherine Bowman
Rodney Jones
Allison Joseph
Jesse Lee Kercheval
Brad Leithauser
Manuel Luis Martinez
Mary Jo Salter
Barbara Shoup
Jon Tribble
Charles Harper Webb
1998
Carol Anshaw
Pinckney Benedict
Catherine Bowman
Ralph Burns
Gerald Costanzo
Amy Gerstler
John McCluskey
Jay Meek
William O’Rourke
Lucia Perillo
Sharon Solwitz
1997
Marianne Boruch
Catherine Bowman
Richard Katrovas
Yusef Komunyakaa
Alyce Miller
Susan Neville
Barbara Shoup
Joan Silber
Arthur Vogelsang
David Wojahn
Al Young
1996
Ralph Burns
Jim Elledge
Reginald Gibbons
Brigit Pegeen Kelly
John McCluskey
Susan Neville
Frances Sherwood
Gerald Stern
Brian Swann
Roberta Swann
Jean Thompson
David Wojahn
1995
Ralph Burns
Bernard Cooper
Martin Espada
Thomas Gavin
John McCluskey
William Matthews
Frances Sherwood
Maura Stanton
Jean Thompson
C.D. Wright
Al Young
Paul Zimmer
1992
Ralph Angel
Tony Ardizzone
Robert Boswell
Lynn Emanuel
Mark Halliday
Heather McHugh
Reginald McKnight
William Matthews
Donald Revell
Gladys Swan
Jean Thompson
David Wojahn
1991
Deborah Digges
Alan Dugan
Richard Jackson
David Bradley
Susan Dodd
Ellen Lesser
Ira Sadoff
1990
Marvin Belle
Ralph Burns
Reginald Gibbons
Dewitt Henry
Lynda Hull
Reginald McKnight
Judy Troy
Joan Silber
Brian Swann
Roberta Swann
David Wojahn
Richard Yates
1989
Brian Swann
Andre Hudgins
Joan Silber
Charles Johnson
Joseph Parisi
Dewitt Henry
Cornelia Nixon
Dean Young
Roberta Swan
Joan Aleshire
Sherod Santos
Ellen Lesser
Briana Swan
1988
David St. John
Joy Williams
David Huddle
Stephen Dunn
Stuart Dybek
Susan Mitchell
1987
Brian Swann
Rochelle Distelheim
Arthur Vogelsang
David Jauss
Howard Norman
Roger Mitchell
Charles Baxter
Sena Naslund
Brenda Hillman
Vern Rutsala
Patricia Hampl
1986
Maura Stanton
Steven Axelrod
John Calvin Batchelor
Richard Cecil
Jean Thompson
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Sandra McPherson
Stanley Plumly
Pam Service
Brian Swann
Rochelle Distelheim
Andre Dubus
1985
Carol Bly
Lisel Mueller
Dave Smith
Rochelle Distelheim
Alvin Greenberg
Denise Levertov
Susan Neville
Scott Sanders
Sam Smiley
Maura Stanton
Brain Swann
Robley Wilson
1984
E.M. Broner
Hayden Carruth
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
James Hazard
John McCulsky
Mary Oliver
Grace Paley
Scott Sanders
Sam Smiley
Mona Van Duyn
Robert Wilson
1983
Tim Cahill
Stanley Elkin
Douglas Hofstadter
Carolyn Kizer
Ursula LeGuin
Roger Mitchell
Thomas Rabbitt
Mary Robison
Scott Sanders
Sam Smiley
Dave Smith
1982
Willis Barnstone
Raymond Carver
George Garrett
James Hazard
Shirley Kaufman
Emily Cheney Neville
Scott Sanders
Cynthia Propper Seton
Clancy Sigal
William Stafford
Maura Stanton
Alberta Turner
1981
E.M. Broner
R.V. Cassill
James Hazard
Galway Kinnell
Carolyn Kizer
Paul Metcalf
Lisel Mueller
Scott Sanders
Clancy Sigal
Robley Wilson
1980
Alan Dugan
George Garrett
James Hazard
Paul Metcalf
Marge Piercy
Francine du Plessix Gray
Scott Sanders
Clancy Sigal
Mary Ellen Solt
Brian Swann
Diane Wakoski
Kathleen Wiegner
Maia Wojciechowska
1979
Rhoda A. Weyr
Richard Kostelanetz
1978
Ursula LeGuin
Mary Fornes
Ishmael Reed
Ed Stern
1977
Herbert Gold
Jim Hougan
Philip Levine
Grace Paley
Muriel Rukeyser
Megan Terry
Roger Zelazny
1976
John Arden
Richard Kostelanetz
Dan Georakas
Leonard Michaels
John Woods
Sol Yurick
Roger Zelazny
1975
Madeleine L’Engle
Paul Darcy Boles
Mary Daniels
Philip Hamburger
Jack Matthews
Roger Mitchell
Tad Mosee
Harry Mark Petrakis
1974
Norma Ainsworth
Doris Betts
Stephen Birmingham
BJ Chute
Richard Dunlop
Arthur Gregor
Tad Mosel
Arturo Vivante
1973
Elizabeth Spencer
A.E.Hotchner
Stanley Elkin
Doris Betts
Arthur Gregor
Emily Cheney Neville
Eileen Jensen
John Brady
1972
Fred Mustard Stewart
Gerold Frank
Doris Betts
Jack Matthews
Sandra Hochman
Lloyd Alexander
Paul Darcy Boles
Charles and Bonnie Remsberg
1971
Anton Myrer
Elizabeth Spencer
Gay Talese
Gwendolyn Brooks
Madeleine L’Engle
Will Stanton
William Barry Furlong
Gretchen Cryer
1970
Noel B. Gerson
Harry Mark Petrakis
Martin L. Gross
Selden Rodman
Maia Wojciechowska
Robert Canzoneri
Richard Dunlop
Peter Masterson
1969
Anton Myrer
Stephen Birmingham
Philip Hamburger
John Ashbery
Maia Wojciechowska
Sam Smiley
Hal Higdon
John Weston
1968
Douglass Wallop
Jesse Hill Ford
William K. Zinsser
Lionel Wiggam
Jean Poindexter Colby
Arturo F. Gonzalez Jr.
Sam Smiley
Ilka Chase
1967
Jerome Weidman
Elizabeth Enright
Gerold Frank
Gwendolyn Brooks
Richard Atcheson
Beatrice Schenk De Regniers
Malcolm Foster
1966
Arthur Hailey
William Peden
Bruce and Naomi Bliven
Gwendolyn Brooks
Madeleine L’Engle
Robert Meredith
Lillian Pompian
1965
David Westheimer
Harry Mark Petrakis
Jhan & June Robbins
Lionel Wiggam
Madeleine L’Engle
Robert Meredith
Lillian Pompian
1964
Anya Seton
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Ernest Havemann
Lionel Wiggan
The Spewacks
Keith Robertson
Harry Mark Petrakis
Lillian Pompian
1963
John Brooks
James Reid Parker
Maurice Zolotow
Lionel Wiggam
Tad Mosel
Keith Robertson
Bernard Sabath
Lillian Pompian
1962
Gladys Schmitt
Robert Murphy
Berton Roueche
Tad Mosel
Lionel Wiggam
Charlotte Zolotow
Bernard Sabath
Mary Corey
Willie Snow Ethridge
William Raney
1961
Nathaniel Benchley
Elizabeth Janeway
William Jay Smith
Charlotte Zolotow
Richard Gehman
Howard Rodman
Bernard Sabath
1960
Frances Gray Patton
David Wagoner
Mark Harris
Jean Lee Latham
Richard Gehman
Howard Rodman
1959
Nancy Wilson Ross
Stanley Young
Maurice Zolotow
Jean Lee Latham,
Ernest Kinoy
Winfield Townley
1958
Elizabeth Enright
John Selby
Maurice Zolotow
Peggy Bacon
Michelle Cousin
Reed Whittemore
1957
Jean Poindexter Colby
Walker Gibson
Don Congdon
Henry La Cossitt
Michelle Cousin
Jessamyn West
1956
Helen Eustis
Henry La Cossitt
Erik Barnouw
Howard Nemerov
Ruth Krauss
1955
Louise Bogan
Caroline Gordon
William Hodapp
Bruce Bliven, Jr.
Beatrice Creighton
1954
Elizabeth Yates
J.F. Powers
Robert Coughlan,
Richard Wilbur
Paul Pickrel
1953
John Selby
Elizabeth Enright
John Malcolm Brinnin
Frances Gray Patton
Oliver Jensen
1952
Nelson Algren
John Ciardi
Victoria Lincoln
Isabel McLennon McMeekin
Richard H. Rovere
1951
Peter Taylor,
Glenway Wescott
Richard Eberhart
John Bartlow Martin
Marjorie Flack
1950
Merle Miller
Louise Bogan
John Crowe Ransom
Lillian Smith
Caroline Gordon
Allen Tate
Gertrude Blumenthal
Walter S. Campbell
1949
Andrew Lyttle
Harry Shaw
Stephen Spender
Jeannette Covert Nolan
Glenway Wescott
Karl Detzer
Arch Oboler
1948
John Frederick Nims
John R Tunis
Jessamyn West
Lillian Hellman
John Horne Burns
Kenneth Fearing
Rolfe Humphries
William E Wilson
Irving Stone
1947
Carl Carmer
David L Cohn
Howard Fast
Brendan Gill
Horace Gregory
Ralph Humphries
Randall Jarrell
Meridel Le Sueur
John R Tunis
Ann Weil
Marya Zaturenska
1946
Robert Hillyer
Don Herold
MacKinlay Kantor
Mari Sandoz
Mary Jane Ward
Marion Boyd Havighurst
Walter Havighurst
John R Tunis
1945
Horace Gregory
Boyden Sparks
James T Farrell,
Richard A Cordell
Jeanette Covert Nolan
AC Spectorsky
Ruth Suckow
1942
Carl Carmer
John T Frederick
Katherine Anne Porter
David Daiches—Elliot Prize
Jeanette Covert Nolan
John Crowe Ransom
1941
Sally Benson
Carl Carmer
Nannine Joseph
Herbert J. Muller
Jeannette Covert Nolan
Kerker Quinn
John Crowe Ransom
Irwin Shaw
S. Stephenson Smith
Marguerite Young
1940
John Gould Fletcher
Jesse Stuart
Will David Howe
Jessica Mannon
Karl W. Detzer
Maxwell Aley
Jeanette Covert Nolan
Margaret Weymouth Jackson
Miriam Mason Swain