Iowa City Book Festival

Kristy Nabhan-Warren | Iowa City Book Festival 2021

Kristy Nabhan-Warren will discuss her latest book, Meatpacking America: How Migration, Work, and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland.

Kristy Nabhan-Warren, the V. O. and Elizabeth Kahl...

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Gregory Galloway | Iowa City Book Festival 2021

Award-winning Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate Gregory Galloway will read from and discuss his third novel, Just Thieves, a classic noir that follows recovering addicts and accomplished house...

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Habib Tengour & Pierre Joris | Iowa City Book Festival 2021

The Book Festival partners with the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program for an event with poets and translators Habib Tengour and Pierre Joris.

Fall 2021 IWP participant...

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Marc Rahe & Julie Hanson | Iowa City Book Festival 2021

A joint poetry reading by these Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduates. Hanson is the author of Unbeknownst, an Iowa Poetry Prize winner, and the new The Audible and the Evident. Rahe’s latest...

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The Writers' Rooms: Writers Helping Writers | Iowa City Book Festival 2021

The Writers' Rooms is a non-profit corporation that focuses on the ideology of writers helping writers. Join Director Erin Casey to learn about our literary organization, our goals, and how...

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The Terrain of No Words - An Elegy for Refugees: A Reading of Bejan Matur’s Sea of Fate | Iowa City Book Festival 2019

The world renowned Turkish poet Bejan Matur wrote her Sea of Fate in 2009, in the span of a three-week long “near-trance,” an almost mystical outpouring of words and lines. The poem cycle is a...

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Josh Gondelman and Lyz Lenz | Iowa City Book Festival 2019

Josh Gondelman is a comedian and a writer/producer for “Desus & Mero” on Showtime. Previously, he earned two Peabody Awards and three Emmys for his work on “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver...

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Kassandra Montag | Iowa City Book Festival 2019

A little more than a century from now, the world has been utterly transformed. After years of slowly overtaking the continent, starting with the great coastal cities, rising floodwaters have left...

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Paula Becker | Iowa City Book Festival 2019

A House on Stilts tells the story of one woman’s struggle to reclaim wholeness while mothering a son addicted to opioids. Paula Becker is a writer and historian living in Seattle, Washington. She...

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William Steele | Iowa City Book Festival 2019

April 21st, 2019, marks the 30th anniversary of the film Field of Dreams, based on the book Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella. Kinsella and his work were thrust into the limelight back in 1989 with...

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