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Join us in person at the Shambaugh House (430 N. Clinton St, Iowa City) or online via Facebook or Zoom for a reading by two IWP 2022 Fall Residency writers, Joaquín Ortega and Noa Suzanna Morag. For those who are present in person, light refreshments will be provided.

Joaquín Ortega (playwright, essayist, poet, scholar; Venezuela) works across media and institutions. The author of a volume of poetry and of plays like Lo escuche llorar en mi boca. Tríptico de Caracas [I Heard Him Cry in My Mouth. A Caracas Triptych], he has long been a librettist for popular radio and TV comedy shows, and has also published La cultura del milenio: ensayos sobre creatividad [The Millennium Culture: Essays on Creativity]. He teaches at Universidad Central de Venezuela, in the School of Political and Administration Studies. His residency is made possible by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.

Noa Suzanna Morag (fiction writer, editor; Israel) debuted in 2016 with the novel [User Experience], for which she received the Minister of Culture’s Hebrew Literature prize in the Young Authors category. Since then, she has been working as an editor while publishing stories in the daily Ha’aretz, the Oh!’ Magazine, on ‘The Short Story Project’ website and elsewhere. In 2021 she took part in the Mishkenot Sha’ananim’ residency for emerging writers. Her participation is courtesy of Fulbright Israel.