By Hanna Busse, IWP ICRU Fellow

The "On Going Home" series offers a glimpse of what returning home means for authors who have spent three months in the U.S. as part of the International Writing Program's Fall Residency. This week's installment comes to us from Sabata-mpho Mokae:

The "On Going Home" series offers a glimpse of what returning home means for authors who have spent three months in the U.S. as part of the International Writing Program's Fall Residency. This week's installment comes to us from Oscar Ranzo, writing from Uganda in January 2014:

The Shambaugh House blog's annual "On Going Home" series offers a glimpse of what returning home is like for authors who've spent nearly three months writing and researching in the U.S. as part of the International Writing Program's Fall Residency. This week's installment comes to us from Whiti Hereaka.

“My brother-in-law said to me so ‘now that you’re admitted to the bar are you going to give up this writing thing for a while and try the law?’ and to me what he said is ‘are you going to give up breathing for the next couple of years and try the law?”

-Whiti Hereaka (New Zealand)

All photos by IWP Program Officer Kelly Bedeian.

A guest post from Ericka Raber, Research & Instruction Librarian, University of Iowa

Another guest post from Lisa Gardinier, Latin American & Iberian Studies Librarian at the University of Iowa.