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 Christopher Merrill Director 100 Shambaugh House 319-335-2609 christopher-merrill@uiowa.edu |
CHRISTOPHER MERRILL has published four collections of poetry, including Brilliant Water and Watch Fire, for which he received the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets; translations of Aleš Debeljak’s Anxious Moments and The City and the Child; several edited volumes, among them, The Forgotten Language: Contemporary Poets and Nature and From the Faraway Nearby: Georgia O’Keeffe as Icon; and four books of nonfiction, The Grass of Another Country: A Journey Through the World of Soccer, The Old Bridge: The Third Balkan War and the Age of the Refugee, Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars, and Things of the Hidden God: Journey to the Holy Mountain. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages, his journalism appears in many publications, and he is the book critic for the daily radio news program, The World. He has held the William H. Jenks Chair in Contemporary Letters at the College of the Holy Cross, and now directs the International Writing Program at The University of Iowa. | |
 Hugh G Ferrer Associate Director 100 Shambaugh House 319-335-3856 hugh-ferrer@uiowa.edu |
HUGH FERRER earned an AB in Philosophy from Princeton University and an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He has been with the International Writing Program since 2001. He also serves as the Fiction Editor of the Iowa Review and is working on his first novel. | |
 Nataŝa Ďurovičová, Editor 100 Shambaugh House 319-335-2089 natasa-durovicova@uiowa.edu |
NATAŠA ĎUROVIČOVÁ grew up in Czechoslovakia and Sweden. She has a BA in Drama and Film from University of Lund, a MA in English from University of California at Santa Barbara and an ABD in Film Studies from 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 Bedeian, Program Officer 100 Shambaugh House 319-335-0776 kelly-bedeian@uiowa.edu |
KELLY BEDEIAN received a BA degree in Linguistics from the University of Iowa, after which she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. Kelly went on to work on a variety of professional development and exchange programs as a Program Manager at CONNECT/US-RUSSIA, a non-profit organization based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 2001 Kelly returned to life overseas, working with the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) first as a Program Manager for the Community Connections program then later in a dual role as the Country Manager for the IREX/Armenia office and the Regional Manager for the Internet Access and Training Program in the Caucasus Region. Kelly joined the IWP staff in 2004. | |
 Melissa Schiek Secretary 100 Shambaugh House 319-335-0218 melissa-schiek@uiowa.edu |
MELISSA SCHIEK recently moved to Iowa after living for twenty-three years on the island of Maui. She has worked in many fields, from teaching to office management. She now lives in the Kalona area, and is pleased to have joined the administrative team of the International Writing Program. | |
 Mary Nazareth Housing Assistant 100 Shambaugh House 319-335-0128 |
MARY NAZARETH was born in Tanzania and is of Goan descent. She is in charge of the day-to-day lives of the International Writing Program participants. She assists the Program with practical matters and helps writers with the variety of needs that arise from their adjustment to living in Iowa City. She has been associated with the IWP for over 25 years. | |
 Peter Nazareth 100 Shambaugh House 319-335-0448 peter-nazareth@uiowa.edu |
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. | |
 Kiki Petrosino Program Assistant 100 Shambaugh House 319-335-3281 kiki-petrosino@uiowa.edu |
KIKI PETROSINO has been with the program since 2005. Her debut poetry collection, Fort Red Border, was published in 2009 from Sarabande Books. Kiki holds an MA in Humanities from the University of Chicago and an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her poems have appeared in Best New Poets, Fence, The Iowa Review, Harvard Review, Verse Daily, Forklift Ohio, and elsewhere. Her awards include a post-graduate writing fellowship from the UI and two staff scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Vermont. Photo © Rolex\Tomas Bertelsen |
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 Kecia Lynn Project Assistant 100 Shambaugh House 319-384-3296 kecia-lynn@uiowa.edu |
KECIA LYNN is a native of Cleveland Heights, Ohio. She received a BA in English from Case Western Reserve University in 1987 and an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2007. Between degrees, she lived in Chicago and worked in the information technology industry. Her prose has appeared in Black-Eyed Peas for the Soul and Ducts, and she wrote and read a personal narrative that aired on WBEZ-FM as part of the yearly multimedia public affairs series Chicago Matters. | |
 Joseph Tiefenthaler Transportation Coordinator 100 Shambaugh House 319-335-0128 joseph-tiefenthaler@uiowa.edu |
JOSEPH TIEFENTHALER is a native Iowan who received his BA in English from the University of Iowa in 2005. At the UI, he was Editor-in-Chief of Earthwords, the undergraduate literary magazine. Currently, he divides his time between the IWP office and serving as an Editorial Assistant at the Iowa Review. |
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