IWP Advisory Committee

Hualing Nieh Engle IWP Co-Founder, Fiction USA	Rhustom Barucha Dramaturgy, Nonfiction India	Edward Carey Fiction United Kingdom
Lan Samantha Chang Fiction USA	Bei Dao Poetry China	Ferida Durakovic Poetry Bosnia
Natasa Durovicova Editor, translator USA	Ed Folsom Professor of English USA	Helon Habila Fiction, Nonfiction Nigeria
Robin Hemley Nonfiction USA	Ilya Kaminsky Poetry USA/Russia	Eddin Khoo Poetry Translation Malaysia
Marzanna Kielar Poetry Poland	Maksym Kurochkin Playwriting Russia	Roberta Levitow Drama/Theatre USA
Minae Mizumura Fiction Japan	Charles Mulekwa Playwriting Uganda	Charles Simic Poetry, Essays, Translation USA
Cole Swensen Poetry USA	Downing Thomas Dean, International Programs USA	Etienne van Heerden Fiction South Africa
Eliot Weinberger Non-fiction, Translation USA

Upcoming Events

We regret the passing, on April 11, 2024, of the distinguished Romanian author and critic Dan Cristea, who served as the editor in chief of the Luceafărul de Dimineață cultural monthly. In addition to being an alum of the 1985 Fall Residency, Cristea received his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.
Our congratulations to 1986 Fall Residency writer Kwame Dawes, who has been named the new poet laureate of Jamaica.
Congratulations to our colleagues Jennifer Croft and Aron Aji, who are among those serving as judges for the National Book Awards this year, in their case in the category of translated literature.
Ranjit Hoskote’s speech at the 2024 Goa Literary Festival addresses the current situation in Gaza.
In NY Times, Bina Shah worries about the state of Pakistani—and American—democracy.