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A conversation between four IWP 2024 Fall Residency writers on the theme of "Blurred Boundaries," followed by Q&A. Free pizza will be provided to those who attend in person. This event is supported by University of Iowa International Programs and the Stanley-UI Foundation Support Organization.

Join us in Meeting Room A of the Iowa City Public Library, or watch live online via the ICPL YouTube channel: youtube.com/user/thelibrarychannel

Priya Hein (fiction and nonfiction writer; Mauritius) debuted in 2023 with the novel Riambel, which won the Prix Athéna and was recognized as a notable African book for that year by the magazine Brittle Paper. The manuscript had previously won the Prix Jean Fanchette in 2021. Hein was nominated by the National Library of Mauritius for the 2017 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award and was shortlisted for the Prix de l’Atelier Littéraire in 2021 and the Miles Morland Scholarship in 2023. In 2019, she was a mentee in the International Writing Program's Women’s Creative Mentorship Project. She is currently working on her second novel. Her participation was made possible by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.

Nathalie Chang (fiction writer, film critic; Taiwan) is author of the novels [A Short Time in Love: Memoirs of Nantes / Paris] (2011); [The Book of Farewells] (2015), which won the Rising Constellation of Twenty-first Century Award; and [Herstory of Sex] (2019), which won the Openbook Award and was the Mirror Weekly book of the year. She has won the Golden Tripod Award for Excellence in Columns and Commentary and is the author of the Column “Unexpected Taiwanese Films” in the National Film Center’s FA: Film Appreciation. Her participation was made possible by a grant from Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture.

Elena Salamanca (poet, historian, fiction writer, art curator; El Salvador) is the author of several multidisciplinary books of poetry, fiction, and scholarly historical work. She has published three bilingual editions of her poetry translated into English: Tal vez monstruos [Monsters Maybe] (2022), Landsmoder (2022), and La familia o el olvido [Family or Oblivion] (2017). She is the creator, author, researcher, and co-coordinator of the collection SIEMPREVIVAS: Extraordinary Women in the History of El Salvador (2022). She is a three-time recipient of the National Poetry Prize in El Salvador, and her books have been published in the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador. Though she currently lives in Mexico, she continues to work as an academic, artist, and activist in El Salvador. Her participation is made possible by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.

Catarina Gomes (nonfiction and fiction writer; Portugal) is the author of four nonfiction books, most recently Um dedo borrado de tinta [A Finger Smudged with Ink] (2024). Her debut novel, Terrinhas [Little Lands] (2022), received the Agustina Bessa-Luís Revelation Literary Prize, and three of her books are included in the Portuguese government’s National Reading Plan. Gomes worked as a journalist at the daily newspaper Público for 19 years, was a two-time finalist for the Gabriel García Marquez Journalism Prize, and was awarded the King of Spain Prize in 2016. Her participation was made possible by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.