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5Q Interview: University of Iowa Press Author Joseph G. Peterson

Monday, July 7, 2025
"I found myself reflecting on the dilemma that artists who pen memoirs must face when writing explicitly about actual people whom they had sexual relations with."
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5Q Interview: Damon Gray, current student in the Screenwriting Arts BA Program

Thursday, June 26, 2025
"I love how the university's campus is integrated into downtown. When I noticed this during my orientation, it made everything so much more lively."
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5Q Interview: William Pei Shih, instructor at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival

Thursday, June 19, 2025
"I’ve been teaching a course called the Award-Winning Short Story, which is a workshop where we’ve been studying some of the guidelines of what might make a story stand out..."
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5Q Interview: University of Iowa Press Author Tom Mitchell

Thursday, June 19, 2025
"As editor, I gathered the stories from collections of Williams works at the University of Texas and Harvard University. The process of editing included sifting through Williams’s original notes and revisions to ascertain the most effective telling of each story."
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5Q Interview: Stephanie Krzywonos, MFA Graduate of the Nonfiction Writing Program

Wednesday, June 18, 2025
"I am not a daily writer. I am a marathon writer. I prefer large, uninterrupted chunks of time to fully immerse myself and get into a flow."
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Sad Me of the Past // Episode 16: Srikanth Reddy

Monday, June 16, 2025
Today we have Srikanth Reddy, poet and editor at the Paris Review, in the studio to discuss his early writing, his formative 3rd grade acrostic poem ABRAHAM LINCOLN, skipping school to review movies for the Chicago Tribune, deliberately losing a Spelling Bee, + more.
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5Q Interview: University of Iowa Press Author Aidan Ryan

Monday, June 2, 2025
"I gave Cindy's eulogy—I was 18 years old—and the job never quite felt finished."
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Sad Me of the Past // Special Episode 15: Ghosts on the Radio

Wednesday, May 28, 2025
This is a SPECIAL EPISODE of Sad Me of the Past, where we invite young writers from the Iowa Youth Writing Project (IYWP) to talk about a ghost story they created for the Ghosts on the Radio haunted audio anthology.
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5Q Interview: Heidie Senseman, MFA Candidate in the Nonfiction Writing Program

Wednesday, May 21, 2025
"I’m working on a collection of essays about faith, art, and conversion—more specifically, about the way devotional art can act as a sort of vehicle for “translating” religious ideas into a vocabulary that’s more hospitable to secular audiences."
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5Q Interview: Bethany Kaylor, MFA candidate in the Nonfiction Writing Program

Wednesday, May 14, 2025
"Giving myself permission to experiment with something new—like writing an essay in the form of dictionary entries modeled after Bob Flanagan's The Book of Medicine—is so exciting and invigorating."