Festival Guide: 2014 Iowa City Book Festival

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OCTOBER 2-5, 2014

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PRESENTED BY IOWA CITY UNESCO CITY OF LITERATURE

ICBF Kids Events OCTOBER 2-5, 2014 WELCOME TO IOWA CITY, the third UNESCO City of Literature in the world, one of only seven to date, and still the only one in the United States. The Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature organization is proud to offer you four days of literary programing as part of the 2014 Iowa City Book Festival.

Staff Executive Director John Kenyon Director of Operations Rachael Carlson Festival Interns Lauren Kostoglanis Jessica Frye Grace Coleman Program Design: Jordan Sellergren Matt Steele Photos By: Mary F. Coats Joe Mazza Elena Seibert

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UNESCO conferred the City of Literature designation on Iowa City in 2008. We are joined by Edinburgh, Scotland; Melbourne, Australia; Dublin, Ireland; Reykjavik, Iceland; Norwich, England; and Krakow, Poland, as a City of Literature.

Iowa City is a City of Literature for many reasons: The wonderful writing programs at the University of Iowa, including the Writers’ Workshop and International Writing Program, our small presses and magazines, our wonderful libraries, our bookstores, and amenities like the Iowa Avenue Literary Walk.

While you are here, we encourage you to explore all of this and more, to fully immerse yourself in our rich literary culture.

MANY PEOPLE WORKED to make this year’s festival a reality. They are: Eileen Johnson, chair; Larry Baker, Anna Barker, Andy Brodie, Hugh Ferrer, Matthew Lage, John Logsdon, Andre Perry, Matt Steele, Joe Tiefenthaler, Douglas Ward, Elizabeth Weiss, Jan Weissmiller.

THANK YOU: Simon Andrew, Ron Clark, Patrick DuLaney, Alan Hayes, Amy Hospodarsky, Bobby Jett, Arthur Kim, Jason T. Lewis, Ina Loewenberg, Marc Moen,Tori Morgensai, Sarah Shonrock, Anne Stapleton, Brian Visser, the Bread Garden, the Iowa City Public Library, Prairie Lights, Old Capitol, the Java House, the Senior Center, FilmScene, MidWestOne, Old Brick, the Englert Theatre, the International Writing Program, the Dublin Underground, NewBo Books, Legion Arts/CSPS, the Paul Engle Association for Community Arts, M.C. Ginsberg, the University of Iowa College of Medicine, Devotay, the Coralville Public Library, Dulcinea, Daydreams Comics, University of Iowa Museum of Natural History, Beadology, High Ground Cafe, University Book Store, RSVP, the Trumpet Blossom Cafe, the Mill.

SATURDAY Oct. 4

@ IOWA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY 10:30 A.M. CHILDREN’S STORY TIME featuring Wee Gillis, by Munro Leaf. Prepare for Sunday’s event celebrating the Waverley novels of Sir Walter Scott with this Scottish story time.

Bagpipe music included.

1 P.M. YA AUTHOR EDWARD CAREY reads from his new novel, Heap House.

2:30 P.M. YA AUTHOR JESSIE ANN FOLEY reads from her new novel, The Carnival at Bray @ THE BOOK FAIR (10 A.M. - 5 P.M.) AILEEN STEWART, author of the children’s book, Fern Valley, will be in the Book Fair Author’s Tent.

USBORNE BOOKS: Usborne is an independent children’s book publisher with around 2,000 titles in print, and publishes almost every type of children’s book for every age group, from baby books to young adult novels.

ZENZIC PRESS: This independent letterpress printing group will have hands-on demonstrations for kids of all ages.

THE DEREK PROJECT: Children’s activities in art and writing related to the idea of happiness.

Sponsors City of Iowa City University of Iowa Iowa City Public Library Iowa City/Coralville Area Convention & Visitors Bureau The Eastern Iowa Airport Sheraton Iowa City Knutson Construction Bradley & Riley PC/Iowa City Downtown District

THURSDAY Oct. 2 CRIME FICTION HEAVYWEIGHT James Ellroy has just published the first book in what he calls the second L.A. Quartet.

In Perfidia, Ellroy drops the reader into Los Angeles just before Pearl Harbor is hit. We learn more about many characters who show up in the first L.A. Quartet (including L.A. Confidential and The Black Dahlia) as a trio of police officers investigate the slaying of a Japanese family.

James Ellroy AN EVENING WITH THE DEMON DOG

Ellroy will read from the new book, and then fellow crime novelist Craig McDonald will interview the author about his work. McDonald has interviewed Ellroy 7:30 P.M. | OLD BRICK in the past, most notably for his interview (26 E. MARKET ST.) collections, Art in the Blood and Rogue Males. FREE Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all Iowa City Book Festival events. If you need an accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact our office: info@cityofliteratureusa.org, (319) 887-6100

Notes from the Underground PUBLIC READING of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground.

NOON - 4 P.M. | THE DUBLIN UNDERGROUND (5 S. DUBUQUE ST.) | FREE

Panel: World Novel Today WRITERS DISCUSS the state of the novel internationally. Featuring Laurynas Katkus (Lithuania), Martina Odonkor (Ghana), Harry Stecopolous and Peter Nazareth (University of Iowa).

Luis Alberto Urrea

NOON | GERBER LOUNGE (ENGLISH-PHILOSOPHY BUILDING, UI CAMPUS) | FREE

>> 2014 PAUL ENGLE PRIZE WINNER

Luis Urrea leads a panel discussing issues along the U.S.-Mexico border.

7 P.M. | CORALVILLE CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS (1301 5TH ST., CORALVILLE) | FREE

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FRIDAY Oct. 3 PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR of Gilead and its successor, Home, Marilynne Robinson will read from her new novel, Lila, and then discuss it with Ayana Mathis. Mathis, a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she studied under Robinson, is the author of the Oprah Book Club 2.0 pick The Twelve Tribes of Hattie.

7:30 P.M. ENGLERT THEATRE 221 E. WASHINGTON ST. FREE

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Panel: Writing in a Country at War WHAT ARE A WRITER’S DUTIES, privileges and obligations when his or her country is at war? Panelists are International Writing Program participants Mujib Mehrdad (Afghanistan), Sadek Mohammed (Iraq), and Boaz Gaon (Israel).

12:30 P.M. | MEETING ROOM A, IOWA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY | FREE

Screening + Signing

L.A. Confidential

>> ATTENDEES WILL RECEIVE a copy of James Ellroy’s new novel, Perfidia, and have the chance to meet Ellroy and have their book signed.

Ellroy then will speak before the screening about the film and the transition from page to screen. Tickets are $40 and are available from FilmScene.

SIGNING: 6:30 P.M., SCREENING: 7 P.M. | FILMSCENE (118 E. COLLEGE ST.) | $40 (info: www.icfilmscene.org)

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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS ALL EVENTS FREE SEE PAGE 6 FOR COMPLETE LINEUP

Book Fair

SATURDAY Oct. 4

175th Anniversary ceremony

More than 20 vendors and authors will be selling books on the Pedestrian Mall 10 A.M. - 5 P.M. (SEE THE MAP ON PAGE 6-7 FOR A LIST OF VENDORS)

Iowa City was founded in 1839, and as we kick off the Iowa City Book Festival’s Saturday programming, we will take a moment to mark the occasion, taking a brief look back before we move forward.

9 A.M. | OLD CAPITOL SENATE CHAMBER

The Dublin Connection

FW75—CELEBRATING 75 YEARS OF FINNEGANS WAKE: 2014 is the 75th anniversary of James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake. To celebrate, the seven UNESCO Cities of Literature joined together to create short films based on some of the stories in the novel. Following the screening, Ron Clark from Riverside Theatre, one of the stars of Iowa City’s contribution, will discuss the process of adapting Joyce’s difficult text to the stage.

10 A.M. | FILMSCENE (118 E. COLLEGE ST.)

Six authors with ties to Dublin will visit this year’s festival in a special collaboration with the Dublin UNESCO City of Literature. Events include: IRISH WRITERS AT THE INTERNATIONAL WRITING PROGRAM: A CELEBRATION Featuring Stephen James Smith, Paddy Woodworth, Siobhan Campbell, Eamonn Wall, Joseph Woods and Drucilla Wall 10 A.M. | OLD CAPITOL SENATE CHAMBER POETRY READING Featuring Smith, Campbell and Woods 1 P.M. | MEETING ROOM A, IOWA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY PANEL: IRISH-AMERICAN CULTURAL CONNECTIONS Featuring Eamonn Wall, Woods, Campbell and Drucilla Wall 2:30 P.M. | OLD CAPITOL SENATE CHAMBER

A Tribute to Donald Justice Ten years after his passing, the work of Donald Justice continues to resonate. A panel of poets, led by 2013 National Book Award winner Mary Szybist, reads from and discusses the work of the late poet in this special event.

2:30 P.M. | MEETING ROOM A, IOWA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY

Glory of the Senses—PAUL ENGLE ESSAY

CONTEST CEREMONY: The Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature’s annual essay contest for Iowa high school sophomores includes a top prize of one year of free tuition to the University of Iowa, and $500 cash scholarships for runners up. Join us as we hear winning students read from their work.

11:30 A.M. | OLD CAPITOL SENATE CHAMBER

Paul Engle Prize Ceremony—

LUIS ALBERTO URREA will receive the 2014 Paul Engle Prize. Each year, the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature awards the Paul Engle Prize to a writer who, like Paul Engle, represents a pioneering spirit in the world of literature through writing, editing, publishing, or teaching, and whose active participation in the larger issues of the day has contributed to the betterment of the world through the literary arts. Urrea, author, educator and activist, will receive the award, deliver short remarks, and read briefly from his work.

1 P.M. | OLD CAPITOL SENATE CHAMBER

Reyna Grande—ONE COMMUNITY ONE BOOK:

Author Reyna Grande talks about her book, The Distance Between Us: A Memoir, the 2014 One Community, One Book selection from the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights. 7:30 P.M. | ROOM C20 OF THE POMERANTZ CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF IOWA CAMPUS IOWACITYBOOKFESTIVAL.ORG 5

SATURDAY Events A—POMERANTZ CENTER; 213 North

Clinton Street; OLD BRICK; 26 E. Market St.

B—HOME EC. WORKSHOP; 207 N. Linn St. 1 P.M. Poetry Embroidery Workshop

C—OLD CAPITOL; Clinton St. & Iowa Ave. 9 AM Iowa City 175th anniversary 10 AM Irish Writers at the IWP 11:30 AM Student Essay Awards 1 PM Engle Prize - Urrea 2:30 PM Panel: Dublin Connection

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E—PRAIRIE LIGHTS BOOKSTORE; 15 S. Dubuque St. 10 AM Peyton Marshall - Goodhouse; Marcus Burke - Team Seven 11:30 AM Marlon James - A Brief History Of Seven Killings 1 PM Marilyn Chin - Hard Love Province (Poems) 2:30 PM Kathleen Founds - When Mystical Creatures Attack!; Heather A. Slomski - The Lovers Set Down Their Spoons 4 PM Hubert Pedroli - Joyrider F—SENIOR CENTER; 28 S. Linn St. 2:30 PM Panel - Loyalty and Betrayal: Chi Li, Craig McDonald, June Melby, Franca Treur, Kinana Issa 4 PM Panel - A Sense of Place 2 Edward Carey, Cynthia Edul, Peyton Marshall, Heather A. Slomski, Tang Siu Wa G—MIDWESTONE BANK; 102 S. Clinton St.

10 AM Panel - Breaking In, Breaking Out: Ali Cobby Eckermann, Marlon James, Jon McGoran, Myay Hmone Lwin, Andra Rotaru 11:30 AM Panel- Writing As Recovery: Auguste Corteau, Heekyung Eun, Sabah Sanhouri, Ahmed Shafie, Yeow Kai Cahi 1 PM Panel - A Sense of Place 1: Marcus Burke, Bernice Chauly, Jessie Ann Foley, Daren Kamali, Scott Phillips

H—JAVA HOUSE; 211 E.Washington St.

11:30 AM Levi Stahl - The Getaway Car: A Donald E.Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany; Craig McDonald Forever’s Just Pretend 1 PM June Melby - My Family and Other Hazards 2:30 PM Robert Gutsche Jr. - A Transplanted Chicago: Race, Place And The Press In Iowa City

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ALL EVENTS FREE OF CHARGE

I—ENGLERT THEATRE; 221 E.Washington St. J—FILMSCENE; 118 E. College St. K—IOWA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY; 123 S. Linn St.

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10 AM Scott Phillips - Hop Alley; Jon McGoran Deadout 11:30 AM Sean Strub - Body Counts; Terrence Holt - Internal Medicine 1 PM Irish Poetry Reading: Stephen James Smith, Siobhan Campbell, Joseph Woods 2:30 PM Justice Memorial: Mary Szybist, James Galvin, Jan Weissmiller and others.

4 PM Paddy Woodworth - Our Once And Future Planet; Jeff Biggers - Reckoning At Eagle Creek

TEEN ROOM

1 PM Edward Carey - Heap House (YA) 2 PM Jessie Ann Foley - The Carnival At Bray (YA)

L—THE MILL; 120 E. Burlington St. M—TRUMPET BLOSSOM CAFE; 310 E. Prentiss St.

Vendors 10 AM - 5 PM 1—AUTHOR TENT Featuring Edna Lee Allen, A Better Way; Joseph Dobrian, Willie Wilden; Warren Goldie, Waking Maya; Katherine Perkins-Armond, Dawn of Steam: First Light; Aileen Stewart, Fern Valley; Tim Trenkle, The Kings of Narrow Gate

2—AMONG THE STACKS 3—THE MINDBRIDGE FOUNDATION 4—UNIVERSITY OF IOWA BOOKSTORE 5—ICE CUBE PRESS 6—IOWA BOOK 7—ANOMALOUS PRESS 8—BEN TWEEDT 9—MARY POTTER KENYON 10—CANDLE LIGHT PRESS 11—INFO/VOLUNTEER CHECK-IN 12—UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS 13—THE IOWA REVIEW 14—PROMPT PRESS 15—CAMP COURAGEOUS 16—THE DEREK PROJECT 17—USBORNE BOOKS & MORE

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SUNDAY Oct. 5 AUTHOR JANE SMILEY will read from and discuss her new novel, Some Luck. With this new book, Smiley returns to the Iowa landscape that spawned her best-known work, the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Thousand Acres.

Jane Smiley

1 P.M. ENGLERT THEATRE 221 E. WASHINGTON ST. FREE

A Day in the City of Literature FIND COMPLETE LINEUP ON BACK COVER

Celebrating Sir Walter Scott

200TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF SIR WALTER SCOTT’S WAVERLEY NOVELS Celebrate Sir Walter Scott’s Legacy in Iowa with a free literary and musical performance of Scottish culture narrated by Alan Riach, Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow and Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor at The University of Iowa. This program will include readings, music, songs, and dances from and inspired by Scott’s work. Musicians include Scottish fiddler Jeremy Kittel, bagpipers Robert Gray and Ed Raber, soprano Jennifer Macfarlane Haworth, and the Iowa City Crescendo Children’s Choir.

Scottish dancers hail from Iowa and Kansas. This program is made possible due to funding from The University of Iowa’s Department of English and Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professorship.

3 P.M. | ENGLERT THEATRE | FREE

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THE ANNUAL EXCLAMATION POINT on the Iowa City Book Festival, laugh along as locals attempt to bring out the best in Iowa City by dishing out their worst. Hosted by Little Village Editor Arashdeep Singh.

5 P.M. DOORS | THE MILL (120 E. BURLINGTON ST.) | FREE 8 IOWACITYBOOKFESTIVAL.ORG

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FEATURED Writers

Abdullah Al Wesali is a fiction writer from Saudi Arabia and a participant in the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program.

Binayak Banerjee is a fiction writer, poet, and playwright from India and a participant in the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program.

Jeff Biggers has worked as a writer and educator across the United States, Europe, India, and Mexico. His work has appeared on NPR, and in the New York Times,Washington Post and elsewhere. Reckoning at Eagle Creek is his latest book.

Marcus Burke had a knee injury that led him, a standout athlete, to try fiction.

A graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, his first novel is Team Seven. He lives in Iowa City.

Marlon James

Diego State University. Her newest col- Marlon James is a Jamaican novelist lection is Hard Love Province. who has been teaching English and creative writing at Macalester College since Ali Cobby Eckermann is a poet from 2007. He is the author of The Book of Australia and a participant in the Universi- Night Women and the new A Brief History Siobhan Campbell is a poet whose ty of Iowa’s International Writing Program. of Seven Killings. collections include Cross-Talk and That Water Speaks in Tongues. She is editor of Cynthia Edul is a playwright and fiction Boaz Gaon is a playwright and fiction Courage and Strength: Poems and Stories by writer from Argentina and a participant writer from Israel and a participant in the Combat Stress Veterans. She is associate in the University of Iowa’s International University of Iowa’s International Writing professor in English Literature/Creative Writing Program.

Program.

Writing at Kingston University London.

Auguste Corteau is a fiction writer, Assaf Gavron has published five novels Edward Carey was born in Norfolk, playwright and translator from Greece and a collection of Jerusalem falafel-joint England, and is the author of the novels and a participant in the University of Io- reviews. As a translator, Gavron is responObservatory Mansions and Alva and Irva: the wa’s International Writing Program. sible for highly regarded English-to-HeTwins Who Saved a City. His most recent brew translations of J.D. Salinger and Philrelease is the young adult book, Heap Eun Heekyung is a fiction writer from ip Roth. He is the editor of Tel Aviv Noir.

South Korea and a participant in the UniHouse. versity of Iowa’s International Writing Robert Gutsche Jr. is a graduate of Bernice Chauly is a poet, nonfiction Program. the University of Iowa and an assistant and fiction writer, playwright, and filmjournalism professor at Florida Internamaker from Malaysia and a participant Jessie Ann Foley is a Chicago Public tional University in Miami. He is the auin the University of Iowa’s International Schools English teacher who holds an thor of A Transplanted Chicago: Race, Place MFA from Columbia College Chicago. and the Press in Iowa City.

Writing Program.

Her debut novel, The Carnival at Bray, won Chi Li is a fiction writer from China and the 2014 Helen Sheehan YA Book Prize.

Alan Hayes is publisher of Arlen a participant in the University of Iowa’s House, one of Ireland’s oldest and most Kathleen Founds teaches social-justice respected literary imprints and a member International Writing Program. themed English classes at Cabrillo College of the Management Group of Dublin Marilyn Chin was born in Hong Kong in Watsonville, Calif., and writes while her UNESCO City of Literature. He founded and raised in Oregon. Her books of poet- toddler is napping. Her latest book, When the Dublin Book Festival in 2008. ry have become Asian American classics. Mystical Creatures Attack! received the 2014 She co-directs the MFA program at San John Simmons Short Fiction Award.

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Reyna Grande Reyna Grande is a novelist and memoirist. Her latest book, The Distance Between Us, is the 2014 selection in the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights’ One Community One Book project. She teaches creative writing at UCLA Extension.

Kinana Issa is a fiction writer and playwright from Syria and a participant in the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program.

Daren Kamali is a poet and performer from New Zealand and a participant in the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program.

Laurynas Katkus is a poet, fiction writer, translator and essayist from Lithuania, and a participant in the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program.

Gerður Kristný is a fiction writer and poet from Iceland and a participant in the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program.

Sabata-Mpho Mokae is a poet, nonfiction and fiction writer from South Africa and a participant in the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program.

Peyton Marshall grew up near Washington, D.C. Before enrolling in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Peyton spent many years remodeling Craftsman-style homes.

Her work is rooted in ideas about love and the potential brutalities of human life.

Goodhouse is her first novel.

Myay Hmone Lwin is a poet, fiction writer and translator from Burma/Myanmar and a participant in the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program.

Craig McDonald is an award-winning journalist, editor and fiction writer. His debut novel, Head Games, was selected as a 2008 Edgar nominee for Best First Novel by an American Author. His latest is Forever’s Just Pretend.

Jon McGoran is the author of Drift, an ecological thriller, and its sequel, Deadout.

Writing as D. H. Dublin, he is the author of a series of forensic thrillers. He has written about food and sustainability for more than twenty years.

Martina Odonkor is a fiction writer from Ghana and a participant in the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program.

Hubert Pedroli is a financial services industry consultant and an avid armchair pilot. His novel, Joyrider, explores what is behind the strange sightings in the skies over a little Iowa town.

Scott Phillips is the author of three of the most highly acclaimed crime novels of recent years: The Ice Harvest, The Walkaway and Cottonwood. He lives in St. Louis with his wife and daughter. His new novel is Hop Alley.

Mujib Mehrdad is a poet, playwright and translator from Afghanistan and a Andra Rotaru is a poet and journalparticipant in the University of Iowa’s In- ist from Romania and a participant in the ternational Writing Program.

University of Iowa’s International Writing Program.

June Melby is a widely published writer who lives in Decorah. In 2002 she was the Sabah Sanhouri is a fiction writer from winner of the Children’s Poetry Award at the Sudan and a participant in the University of Edinburgh International Poetry Festival. Her Iowa’s International Writing Program. new book is My Family and Other Hazards.

Enrique Serrano is a fiction writer from Sadek Mohammed is a poet, trans- Colombia and a participant in the Universilator and scholar from Iraq and a partic- ty of Iowa’s International Writing Program. ipant in the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program.

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FEATURED Writers

Ahmed Shafie is a poet, fiction writer and translator from Egypt and a participant in the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program.

Heather A. Slomski is the author of The Lovers Set Down Their Spoons, winner of the 2014 Iowa Short Fiction Award. She received her MFA from Western Michigan University.She lives in Minnesota and teaches writing at Concordia College.

Terrence Holt

Stephen James Smith is a poet and playwright from Dublin. His Dublin Fringe play ‘Three Men Talking…’ was shortlisted for the Bewley’s Little Gem Award in 2011. Stephen is also a regular contributor to national TV and radio, and is director of LINGO, Ireland’s first spoken-word poetry festival.

Terrence Holt is an American doctor and writer as well as a former professor Levi Stahl is the publicity manager of of literature at Rutgers University and the University of Chicago Press. He has Swarthmore College. His new book, reviewed books for the Chicago Read- Internal Medicine, offers stories from his er and the Bloomsbury Review, He edited medical residency. a new collection of the late Donald E. Brian Switek is a freelance science Westlake’s non-fiction, Getaway Car. writer, author of the critically-acclaimed Harry Stecopoulos is an associate book Written in Stone, and a paleontology professor of English at the University of volunteer at the Natural History MuseIowa, where he teaches courses on mod- um of Utah. His latest book is My Beloved ern U.S. literature, culture, and perfor- Brontosaurus. mance, with specific interests in the novel, Tang Siu Wa is a poet and essayist from cultural studies, and postcolonial theory.

Hong Kong and a participant in the UniverSean Strub is an activist and writ- sity of Iowa’s International Writing Program. er who has been HIV positive for more than 33 years. He founded POZ magazine Natasha Tiniacos is a poet from Venand serves as the executive director of ezuela and a participant in the University the Sero Project. He wrote Body Counts: of Iowa’s International Writing Program.

A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS and Survival.

Franca Treur is a fiction writer from Mary Szybist is the author of Incarna- the Netherlands and a participant in the dine, winner of the 2013 National Book University of Iowa’s International Writing Award for Poetry. Her first book Grant- Program. ed won the 2004 GLCA New Writers Award and was a finalist for the National Drucilla Wall is a poet whose debut collection is The Geese at the Gates. She Book Critics Circle Award. holds a doctorate in English from the Uni-

versity of Nebraska and is an associate teaching professor and poet in residence at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Eamonn Wall is author of six collections of poetry, most recently Sailing Lake Mareotis. Junction City: Selected Poems 1990–2014 will be published in 2015. His criticism includes Writing the Irish West: Ecologies and Traditions.

Joseph Woods is a poet, editor and former Director of Poetry Ireland. He has published three collections of poetry, Sailing to Hokkaido, Bearings and Ocean Letters. Woods was awarded the Katherine and Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship in 2014.

Paddy Woodworth is an author, journalist, lecturer and tour guide, and currently an adjunct senior lecturer in the School of Languages and Literatures at the University College Dublin. His latest book is Our Once and Future Planet.

Yeow Kai Chai is a poet and fiction writer from Singapore and a participant in the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program.

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SUNDAY Oct. 5

A Day in the City of Literature

ALL EVENTS FREE

IOWACITYBOOKFESTIVAL.ORG BOOK AS ART/ART AS BOOK An upclose look at artist’s books and how we care for them. University Conservator Giselle Simón will also lead a tour of the lab.

11 A.M. | UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LIBRARIES SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND CONSERVATION LAB (THIRD FLOOR, UI MAIN LIBRARY, 125 W. WASHINGTON ST.)

PhD candidate Andrew Williams to create a multimedia profile of Communications Studies professor Kembrew McLeod. The team will present highlights and McLeod will read.

2 P.M. | MEETING ROOM A, IOWA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASSAF GAVRON | TEL AVIV NOIR: Gavron has published five, a collection of short stories, and a non-fiction collection of Jerusalem falafel-joint reviews. He co-edited the new collection Tel Aviv Noir with Etgar Keret.

3 P.M. | PRAIRIE LIGHTS

READING ALOUD GROUP READING: The poetry-reading group based at the Senior Center will read poems selected from the international anthology, A Book of Luminous Things, edited by Czeslaw Milosz.

11:30 A.M. | IOWA CITY SENIOR CENTER

MIKE YOUNG, GENE KWAK, MIKE SCHLESINGER, DELANEY NOLAN, AND ALICE GRIBBIN

Read from their poetry

RESCUE PRESS READING Marc Rahe’s poetry collection is The Smaller Half. Lauren Haldeman’s first poetry collection is Calenday. Blueberry Morningsnow’s first poetry collection is Whale in the Woods.

3 P.M. | RSVP

MARY POTTER KENYON REFINED BY FIRE: A JOURNEY OF GRIEF AND GRACE: Kenyon intimately knows what it is to face grief. In the space of three years she lost a mother, a husband, and an eight-year-old grandson. NOON CORALVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY PAUL INGRAM | THE LOST CLERIHEWS OF PAUL INGRAM Legendary bookseller at Prairie Lights Bookstore in Iowa City, Ingram has found what he feared was long lost—his collection of humorous, intelligent, rollicking, and witty clerihews.

NOON | DEVOTAY AILEEN STEWART | FERN VALLEY: Fern Valley is home to a group of wonderful animals who have fun and face some of the same problems children everywhere do.

NOON | DULCINEA JOHN IRA THOMAS | LOST IN THE WASH: Thomas, of Candle Light Press, will present his Indiefab award-winning comic series, Lost in the Wash.

2 P.M. | DAYDREAMS COMICS CITIZEN SCHOLARS WITH KEMBREW MCLEOD The University of Iowa Mobile App Development Team worked this summer with English

2 P.M. | RSVP FROM PAGE TO PATHWAY: CONNECTING TO OUR NATURAL WORLD THROUGH PICTURE BOOKS: Author/illustrator Claudia McGehee will be joined by Biosphere Discovery Hub and UI Museum of Natural history as she shares her experiences illustrating and writing nature focused picture books, and the inspirations behind her work. 2:30 P.M. | UI MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY PANEL: AT LANGUAGE’S EDGE International Writing Program participants Natasha Tiniacos (Venezuela) and Sabata-Mpho Mokae (South Africa) join poet Marilyn Chin and Waukon-based translator Mary Jane White in a discussion about what it means to translate, and to have their work translated into other languages.

3 P.M. | MEETING ROOM A, IOWA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY LAUREN K. ALLEYNE DIFFICULT FRUIT: Alleyne hails from the twin-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. She is Poet-in-Residence and an assistant professor of English at the University of Dubuque. Difficult Fruit is her new collection of poems.

3 P.M. | BEADOLOGY IOWA BART YATES | THE THIRD HILL NORTH OF TOWN: Yates gives instrument lessons in the Corridor and has taught workshops at the University of Iowa’s Summer Writing Festival. Among his books, the new The Third Hill North of Town is a haunting, imaginative story of human connection and coincidence.

3 P.M. | HIGH GROUND CAFÉ

ICE CUBE PRESS READING Salvatore Marici, Quad Cities Poet Laureate, in a discussion and reading from his new poetry collection, Swish Swirl & Sniff, and Ice Cube Press publisher and author, Steve Semken who will talk about publishing and his new book, Soul External: Rediscovering the Great Blue Heron.

3 P.M. | UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE HOT TIN ROOF: 2014 honorees will read from their work. 3:30 P.M. | TRUMPET BLOSSOM CAFÉ SPANISH MFA: Poets and Writers from the MFA in Spanish Creative Writing Programs and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, José Pablo Barragán, Giuseppe Caputo, Patricia Gonzalo de Jesús, Martín López-Vega, Beverly Pérez- Rego and Pedro Samper will read their work in Spanish.

4 P.M. | PRAIRIE LIGHTS PANEL: RELIGION AND WRITING International Writing Program participants Binayak Banerjee (India), Gerður Kristný (Iceland), Enrique Serrano (Colombia), and Abdullah Al Wesali (Saudi Arabia) discuss how religious heritage shapes an author’s writing.

4 P.M. | MEETING ROOM A, IOWA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY SARAH KOSCH AND BRENDEN SPENGLER will read from their work.

4 P.M. | WHITE RABBIT (112 S. LINN ST.)