Cate Dicharry received her MFA in Creative Writing from University of California, Riverside and later served as the IWP’s Youth Programs Coordinator. She became director of the Writing and Humanities Program at the University of Iowa’s Carver College of Medicine in 2019, serving also as managing editor of The Examined Life Journal and director of The Examined Life Conference. She now returns to the IWP as Director. She is the author of the novel The Fine Art of Fucking Up, among other publications.