Graduate and faculty poets and fiction writers from UI’s Writers’ Workshop frequently visit schools and communities throughout Iowa. These talented writers are available for public readings, writing workshops for students of all ages, literary festivals and panel discussions, and more.
Faculty Artists:
James Galvin
Explore poetic technique through readings or workshops with UI Poetry Workshop faculty James Galvin. Mr. Galvin is the author of numerous poems and books of poetry--The Meadow (1992), Elements (1988), God's Mistress (1984) and Imaginary Timber (1981). Included in Esquire's December 1984 list of outstanding Americans under 40, he has taught such Poetry Workshop courses as Faulkner for Poets, The Poetry of Witness--The Function of Literal Truth in Poetry among others. Mr. Galvin is a graduate of the University of Iowa. Artists:
Michael Judd
Michael Judd is a second-year student in poetry at the Iowa Writers'
Workshop. He studied Economics and English at Princeton and at Brigham
Young University. His awards include an Academy of American Poets Undergraduate Prize, the Mayhew Prizes in Poetry and Short Fiction, and a Ruth Lilly award in fiction. He spent two years as a church missionary in Hong Kong from 2001 to 2003. He now translates poetry and fiction from Chinese in addition to writing his own poems.
Kristen Kelly
Kristen Kelly, a native Kansas, holds an MFA in Poetry from the Writers' Workshop. She has taught Creative Writing at the University of Iowa, English courses at Kirkwood Community College and Augustana College, and Writing Workshops in Illinois. Her work has appeared most recently in Black Warrior Review, Canary, and Court Green, and is forthcoming in the analogy, Best New Poets 2007.
Jenny Zhang
Jenny Zhang is a second year fiction writer in the Writers' Workshop. She graduated from Stanford in 2005 with a degree in Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity and a minor in Creative Writing. While at Stanford, she received a grant to study expatriate artist communities in Paris and work on short stories inspired by the racism, alienation and utter bewildering joy experienced there. While at Stanford, Zhang taught creative writing classes to homeless youth at a local shelter. After college, she worked as a union organizer for Chinese monolingual homecare workers and then took a position with 826 Valencia as their National Coordinator. 826 Valencia is a non profit writing center which offers free tutoring and writing workshops and other opportunities for low-income youth in San Francisco. It was founded by Dave Eggers. Zhang later worked as the Programs Coordinator for 826 and organized, taught, and led a number of writing workshops that were focused on exploring feminism, activism, identity, and empowerment through writing. She also volunteered as an English teacher in a Hungarian village in Romania over the summer and developed several writing workshops for Hungarian students.
Jenny Zhang is interested in teaching fiction workshops with a focus on personal, social, and cultural identity, and would be vastly interested in working with youth communities of color, and other underserved communities.
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