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The IWP and UI MFA writing programs take over the 2nd floor of Prairie Lights – grab a glass of wine or a fancy soda and settle in for an hour of highlights from three of the writers' best works!

Carlos GAMERRO (fiction, translation, nonfiction; Argentina) has authored six novels, most recently Cardenio (2016), a collection of short stories, and a body of literary criticism, as well as translations of seminal English-language literary works including Shakespeare, W. H. Auden, and Harold Bloom.  His own work has been translated into German, English, Turkish and French.  Gamerro’s script for Tres de corazones [Three of Hearts] was made into a feature film in 2007. A 2008 IWP alum, he returns for a teaching residency at Grinnell College.

Clara CHOW (fiction, nonfiction, drama; Singapore) is a short story writer, editor, columnist, co-founder of the arts and literature magazine WeAreAWebsite.com, and author of two short story collections. Named among Singapore’s Top 12 Writers to Watch, she won the 2018 Jane Geske Award for her story “Siren (Redux).” Chow participates courtesy of National Arts Council Singapore. 

Dakota Parobek is a playwright, poet, and composer from Louisville, KY. Their plays have been produced in Chicago by Mercy Street Theatre Company and Nothing Without a Company, and in Louisville by the Walden Theatre Alumni Company. They're writing has been published by Electric Cereal, NOÖ Weekly, l'esprit de l'escalier, and recently, Imagined Theatres. In 2018, they were granted an Iowa Arts Fellowship by the University of Iowa where they are pursuing their MFA in Playwriting in the Iowa Playwrights Workshop.