Writers
Chris Adrian
Title/Position
Fiction | Alumni | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop
Aron Aji
Title/Position
Faculty | Translation Workshop | Translation
Kaveh Akbar
Title/Position
Poetry | Faculty | English Department
Taleb al-Refai
Title/Position
Fiction | Alumni | International Writing Program
Sherman Alexie
Title/Position
Poetry | Iowa Writers' Workshop
Karim Alrawi
Title/Position
Fiction | International Writing Program
Udupi R Ananthamurthy
Title/Position
Fiction | Poetry | Alumni | International Writing Program
Gun-Aajav Ayurzana
Title/Position
Poetry | International Writing Program | Alumni
Dean Bakopoulos
Title/Position
Faculty | Cinema Arts | Screenwriting
Made for Love (2021), co-creator; Don't Come Back from the Moon (2017), author, screenplay
John Banville
Title/Position
International Writing Program | Poetry | Alumni
Sebastian Barry
Title/Position
Fiction | Poetry | Dramatic Writing
Dan Beachy-Quick
Title/Position
Poetry | Nonfiction | Alumni | Faculty | Translation | Iowa Writers' Workshop
Jo Ann Beard
Title/Position
Nonfiction | Alumni | Nonfiction Writing Program
Scott Beck
Title/Position
Alumni | Screenwriting | Communication Studies
A Quiet Place (2018), screenplay
Marvin Bell
Title/Position
Poetry | Alumni | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop
Mildred Wirt Benson
Title/Position
Nancy Drew Author | Fiction | Journalism | Alumni | School of Journalism
Steve Berry
Title/Position
Journalism | Faculty | School of Journalism
Venise Berry
Title/Position
Fiction | Journalism | School of Journalism
John Berryman
Title/Position
Poetry | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop
Eula Biss
Title/Position
Nonfiction | Alumni | Nonfiction Writing Program
Robert Bly
Title/Position
Poetry | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Faculty
Eavan Boland
Title/Position
Poetry | International Writing Program | Faculty
Susan Boyd
Title/Position
Poetry | Alumni | Iowa Writers' Workshop
T. C. Boyle
Title/Position
Fiction | Iowa Writers' Workshop | Alumni | Faculty
Tom Brokaw
Title/Position
Journalism | Alumni | School of Journalism
Suzanne Buffam
Title/Position
Poetry | Alumni | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop
Mitchell Burgess
Title/Position
Fiction | Screenwriting | Alumni | Iowa Writers' Workshop
The Sopranos (1999-2006), Blue Bloods (2010-2024), screenplay
Robert Olen Butler
Title/Position
Fiction | Playwriting | Alumni | Playwrights Workshop
Lila Byock
Title/Position
Fiction | Screenwriting | Alumni | Faculty | Iowa Writers' Workshop
Manhattan (2014–2015), screenplay
John Camp (John Sandford)
Title/Position
Journalism | School of Journalism | Alumni