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Join us at the Shambaugh House (430 N. Clinton St, Iowa City) for a reading by four IWP 2024 Fall Residency writers.

Pervin Saket (poet, novelist, editor; India) is the author of the novel Urmila (2016), the poetry collection A Tinge of Turmeric (2009), and a series of 10 biographies in verse for children. She won the Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize in 2021 and was awarded the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive Fellowship the same year. Her most recent poetry manuscript was a finalist for the Gaudy Boy Prize and the Wheelbarrow Books Prize 2024. She works as an editor for academic textbooks, serves as the poetry editor for The Bombay Literary Magazine, and is currently writing her second novel. Her participation is made possible by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.

Yuten Sawanishi (fiction writer, scholar; Japan) is the author of Furamingo no mura [The Village of Flamingos] (2011), which received the Subaru Literary Prize; Moji no shōsoku [Letters of Letters] (2017); and Ame to karasu [Rain and Raven] (2018). His story “Filling Up with Sugar” appears in The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories, which was edited by Jay Rubin with a preface by Haruki Murakami. Sawanishi teaches at Ryukoku University and serves as a coordinator of the Kyoto Writers Residency. His participation was made possible by the University of Iowa's Center for Asian and Pacific Studies (CAPS) and the Stewart Memorial Fund.

Hatice Açıkgöz (fiction writer, poet, editor; Germany) is the author of two books: the short story collection Ein oktopus hat drei herzen [An Octopus Has Three Hearts] and the poetry collection Fancy immigrantin: ein poetisches tagebuch [Fancy Immigrants]. They are the recipient of the Raus! Nur Raus! stipend of the city of Hamburg, and are currently working on their debut novel, which explores the rise of fascism in modern Germany. Their participation is made possible by the Max Kade Foundation.

Olena Huseinova (poet, prose writer, radio host and producer; Ukraine) is the author of three poetry collections, most recently [Night Air] (2024). Huseinova also writes short fiction and essays, some of which are featured in the anthology Ukraine 22: Ukrainian Writers Respond to War (2023). As the editor in chief at UA: Radio Culture, part of Ukraine's Public Broadcasting, she oversees radio theater and literary programming, leads a team producing radio documentaries on Ukrainian culture, and hosts of her own live radio programs. From Feb. 26, 2022, until August 2023, Huseinova was a key voice in 24-hour news broadcasting on Ukrainian Radio. She has since expanded her activities to include documentary writing about the Russian-Ukrainian war, particularly focusing on the impact on civilians during the Russian occupation. Her participation was made possible by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.