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Over the course of our Spring 2026 semester, our undergraduate interns had the opportunity to contribute to The Iowa Review‘s online publication, Switchgrass. Here, current University of Iowa student Ilianu Banu interviews previous contributor Maxine Scates (51/1, Spring 2021). Iliana Banu/The Iowa Review: I’d like to…
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Over the course of our Spring 2026 semester, our undergraduate interns had the opportunity to contribute to The Iowa Review‘s online publication, Switchgrass. First up, we have Lynne Inouye (’26), who interviewed Maeve Barry, winner of the 2025 Iowa Review Award for Fiction. Lynne Inouye/The Iowa…
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The Iowa Review is thrilled to announce the winners and runners-up of our seventh Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award for Veterans, judged by Dewaine Farria. The work of all winners and runners-up will be published in the Spring 2025 edition of TIR. Included below are the winners, Farria’s comments on their winning work,…
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IN MEMORIAM The Iowa Review celebrates the life of one of our greatest and most influential poets, Alice Notley, who passed away yesterday in Paris. May she rest in peace. This poem appeared in our 45/2, Fall 2015 issue. Honey leader honey from the lion’s body I bring youA food or mental…
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Congratulations to Katherine Gibbel, whose “Salubrious Poem” won the Tim McGinnis Award for 2024. The McGinnis Award is given yearly to the piece published in TIR that best fits the comic spirit of writer Tim McGinnis, whose story “The Trail” was published in 1986. The Salubrious Poem The wide river…
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Congratulations to Ben Ahlrichs, whose poem “Abderus on Heracles” has been been selected as the winner of the The Iowa Review‘s David Hamilton Undergraduate Creative Writing Prize. This prize is sponsored by anonymous donors who wish to honor the mentorship and support that students at the University of…
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By Emily Brown Cassidy McFadzean was born in Regina and earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is the author of Hacker Packer (McClelland & Stewart 2015), which won two Saskatchewan Book Awards and was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and Drolleries (M&S 2019). Her poems have appeared in BOAAT, Event,…
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By Jing Jian David Mura is a memoirist, novelist, poet, and literary critic. He has written the novel Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire and two memoirs: Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and Where the Body Meets Memory: An Odyssey…
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By Peter Myers Jessica Laser was raised in Chicago. She is the author of Sergei Kuzmich from All Sides (Letter Machine Editions, 2019) and the chapbooks Assumed Knowledge and the Knowledge Assumed from Experience (Catenary Press, 2015), and He That Feareth Every Grass Must Not Piss in a Meadow (paradigm press, 2016). A graduate of the Iowa Writers’…
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By Cassandra Jensen Writer and filmmaker David Shields has authored twenty-two books, including the groundbreaking Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (Vintage Books, 2010)and the award-winning Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season (University of Nebraska Press, 2000), as well as, most recently, The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love,…
