Discover authors and speakers who are visiting the Katherine Anne Porter House. Find out more about our guests by reading the biographies below.
Friday, Sept. 29th 2023, 7:30pm
Elizabeth Wetmore is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her debut novel, Valentine, was a New York Time bestseller, and her fiction has appeared in Epoch, Kenyon Review, Colorado Review, Baltimore Review, Crab Orchard Review, and Iowa Review, among others. A native of West Texas, she lives and works in Chicago.
Thursday, Oct. 26th 2023, 6pm
Tomás Q. Morín is the author of the poetry collection Machete and the memoir Let Me Count the Ways. His other works included Patient Zero and A Larger Country, winner of the APR/Honickman Prize. He translated Pablo Neruda’s The Heights of Macchu Picchu and with Mari L’Esperance, he coedited Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine.
Greg Marshall’s first book, Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It, was named a new and noteworthy memoir by the Washington Post, USA Today, and Esquire. His hilarious and poignant memoir grapples with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets—as a gay man and as a man living with cerebral palsy. His work has appeared in The Best American Essays and he is currently a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in Prose.
Thursday, Feb. 22nd 2024, 6pm
Kaveh Akbar's poems appear in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Paris Review, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. He is the author of two poetry collections: Pilgrim Bell and Calling a Wolf a Wolf. He is also the editor of The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 100 Poets on the Divine. In 2024, Knopf will publish Martyr!, Kaveh's first novel. In 2020 Kaveh was named Poetry Editor of The Nation.
Thursday, Feb. 22nd 2024, 6pm
Page Lewis is the author of Space Struck. Their poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Best New Poets 2017, Gulf Coast, The Massachusetts Review, The Georgia Review, Iowa Review, Poetry Northwest, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. Paige currently lives and teaches in Iowa City.
Friday, April 19th 2024, 7:30pm
Alexander Chee is the bestselling author of the novels Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night, and the essay collection How To Write An Autobiographical Novel. A contributing editor at The New Republic, and an editor at large at VQR, his essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, T Magazine, The Sewaneee Review, and the 2016 and 2019 Best American Essays. He teaches as an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College.
