IWP Staff

Maria Teresa BERTORELLO is a 1991 graduate of Catholic University in Cordoba, Argentina, where she earned a BA in Business Administration. She has been studying English since childhood, and spent time in Great Britain as an exchange student. A healthcare administrator in Argentina, she has since arriving in the US worked at the corporate offices of Metso and Staples; she joined the IWP in January of 2011. 

Ashley DAVIDSON is a graduate of the University of Arizona, Sciences Po (Paris), and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her work has appeared in Mid-American Review, Sou'wester, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. She teaches Creative Writing for the Ecologically Aware at the University of Iowa.

Nataša ĎUROVIČOVÁ grew up in Czechoslovakia and Sweden. She has studied at the University of Lund,  University of California at Santa Barbara and at UCLA. She divides her time between editing, teaching, scholarly work, and translating. With Kathleen Newman, she has co-edited World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives (Routledge, 2009).

Kelly MORSE holds an MFA in Poetry from Boston University and a BA in Spanish Literature from Boise State University. Currently, she is working on a series that explores linguistic and world-view gaps between Eastern and Western cultures after living for two years in Hanoi, along with slowly translating a book-length manuscript by Vietnamese poet Ly Doi. She brings three years of program management and six years of teaching to the IWP.

Peter NAZARETH, from Uganda of Goan descent, is Adviser to Foreign Writers. He has published several books of fiction and criticism, including the novel In a Brown Mantle. Educated at Makerere University and Leeds, he is Professor of English and African-American World Studies. His course, Literatures of the African Peoples, received the Distinguished Independent Study Course Award from the National University Continuing Education Association. His second novel, The General Is Up, was reprinted by TSAR Books, Toronto. A collection of critical essays on the work of Ngugi is forthcoming. His work has been translated into Hungarian, Polish, Japanese, Korean, Bengali, Hebrew, Arabic, Serbo-Croatian, Portuguese, and Konkani. He teaches a widely-publicized course on Elvis as Anthology at the University of Iowa.