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Join us for the International Writing Program's Prairie Lights Reading Series this Sunday to hear readings by two 2024 Fall Residency writers and one University of Iowa MFA student.

Nurit Kasztelan (poet, fiction writer, editor, bookseller; Argentina) is the author of the novel Tanto (2023), which was the recipient of an honorable mention for the National Award for Literature from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes, and the poetry collections Movimientos Incorpóreos (2007), Lógica de los accidentes (2013), and Después (2018), which was published in English by Cardboard House Press as Awaiting Major Events (2021). She attended the Campo Garzon residency in Uruguay in 2022. Her participation was made possible by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.

Saad Z. Hossain (fiction writer; Bangladesh) is the author of five books, most recently the novella Kundo Wakes Up (2022) and the novel Cyber Mage (2021). The former was on the Locus recommended reading list for 2022, and Hossain has previously been a finalist for the Locus Awards, the IGNYTE awards, and the Grand Prix de l’imaginaire. He is currently working on a novel about djinns, martial artists, and refugees. His participation was made possible by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.

Camila Urioste is a Bolivian writer. With Diario de Alicia (2005) she became the first woman in Bolivia to win the National Poetry Award. Between 2009 and 2020 she wrote eight plays, staged in national and international theater festivals in Bolivia and South America. In 2017 she won the Bolivian National Novel Prize for her first novel, Soundtrack (Editorial 3600). She holds an MFA in Spanish Creative Writing from the University of Iowa. Her thesis was a Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel called Manqapacha Delight, which was published in Bolivia in August of 2024 and launched at the International Book Fair. She is a second-year graduate student at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, working on her first novel in English.

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact the IWP in advance at iwp@uiowa.edu or 319-335-0128.