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

Smith Likongwe (playwright, poet, fiction and nonfiction writer, academic; Malawi) is a lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Malawi. He also serves as the president of the Association Internationale du Théâtre pour l'Enfance et la Jeunesse (ASSITEJ) Malawi. His publications include Kamuzu Banda and Other Pays (2019), Living Playscripts: A Trilogy (2018), and Prose, Poetry and Drama: A Malawian Anthology (2023). He is the editor and a contributor for the anthologies The Chief’s Blanket and Other Plays (2018), Southern African Plays Collection (2018), and Chamdothe ndi zisudzo zina [Chamdothe and Other Plays] (2018), among others. He has also written two children’s books in the Chichewa language and many plays that aired as part of the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation’s various radio drama programs. His 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.

Nada Alturki (nonfiction writer, poet, journalist; Saudi Arabia) is a reporter for the English-language daily newspaper Arab News and has contributed to several regional and international publications, including Canvas Magazine, Voice of America, and The National. She is also a co-founder of Gen INK, a Riyadh-based writing collective dedicated to creating a meaningful space for Saudi writers to connect, and contributed a chapter to the textbook Women Community Leaders and Their Impact as Global Changemakers (2022). Alturki is currently writing a collection of poems inspired by her life in Saudi Arabia and time spent in the U.S. Her participation was made possible by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.