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5Q Interview: Miharu Yano, MFA candidate in the Translation Workshop
Monday, April 21, 2025

Sad Me of the Past // Episode 14: Madeline McDonnell
Monday, April 21, 2025

5Q Interview: Fion Tse, MFA candidate in the Literary Translation
Thursday, April 17, 2025

5Q Interview: Lydia Meth, Cinematic and Screenwriting Arts
Monday, April 14, 2025

5Q Interview: Grace Morse, MFA candidate in the Nonfiction Writing Program
Monday, April 7, 2025

5Q Interview: Alan Valdez, MFA Candidate at the Spanish Creative Writing Program
Thursday, April 3, 2025

5Q Interview: Emma Athena Murray, MFA Candidate in Literary Translation
Monday, March 31, 2025

5Q Interview: Irene Rodrigo, MFA Candidate in the Spanish Creative Writing Program
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Sad Me of the Past // Episode 13: Curtis Sittenfeld
Monday, March 24, 2025

5Q Interview: Jessica Alexander, an instructor at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival
Thursday, March 13, 2025
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rita Dove received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1977.

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