Summer Institute

 

 

Rochelle Potkar, India (fiction writer, poet), is the author of The Arithmetic of Breasts and Other Stories, Four Degrees of Separation, and Paper Asylum. Widely published online and in print, Rochelle is the poetry editor at the Joao-Roque Literary Journal. Rochelle Potkar was a member of the IWP Fall Residency in 2015.

Anjali Sachdeva, U.S. (fiction writer), is the author of All the Names They Used for God (2018), and her fiction has appeared in The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, Yale Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Literary Review, and Best American Nonrequired Reading. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has taught writing at the University of Iowa, Augustana College, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Pittsburgh. She also worked for six years at the Creative Nonfiction Foundation, where she was Director of Educational Programs.

Harris Khalique, Pakistan (poet, nonfiction writer), is the author of eight poetry collections, including Between You and Your Love (2004), Ishq ki taqveem mein (2006), and Melay mein (2012), which won the 2013 UBL Literary Excellence Award for Urdu poetry. His poems have been anthologized internationally. A campaigner for worker’s, women’s, and minority rights in Pakistan and abroad, he contributes regularly to national and international news publications and is now serving as the Secretary General of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. Harris Khalique was also a member of the IWP Fall Residency in 2015.

 

 

Summer Institute Coordinator: 

 
Summer Institute Program Assistant:

Siyanda Mohutsiwa is a satirist, TED speaker, and graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is a Botswana national, known internationally for the coining of the term “Social Panafricanism” – an ideology that encompasses the growing place of social media in the African political landscape. She lives in Iowa City.

 

Summer Institute Resident Assistant:

Ellen Boyette is a poet and essayist from Asheville, North Carolina. She is an MFA Candidate in Poetry at the Iowa Writers' Workshop where she is a Teaching-Writing Fellow and an editorial assistant for The Iowa Review. Her poems appear in Prelude, The Bennington Review, Ninth Letter, pulpmouth, Tagvverk, Flag + Void, poets.org, and elsewhere. Her interviews can be found at The Iowa Review online, and her first piece of nonfiction is forthcoming from VIDA. She has received fellowships from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the Random House Wanda Chappell fund, and the Blanche-Armfield foundation. 

Summer Institute Resident Assistant:

Ben Bush is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, and an incoming Dornsife Fellow at the University of Southern California creative writing PhD program. His fiction has appeared in The Iowa Review, The Literary Review, Yeti, and The Fanzine. His non-fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Salon, Bookforum, The Believer, Los Angeles Review of Books, Poets & Writers, San Francisco Chronicle, Alternet, and Conversations with William T. Vollmann (University of Mississippi Press). He has received fellowships and scholarships from the Truman Capote Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, Kimmel Harding Nelson, Poets & Writers / the New York State Council on the Arts, Key West Literary Seminars, and Sozopol Fiction Seminars.