Iowa is unique in its high concentration of writers of every stripe: investigative journalists, poets and novelists, spoken word artists, translators, playwrights and children’s book authors. This limited seating reading series offers a chance to say “hello” to your neighbor writers, and to hear them read from and talk about their most recently published work, or work in progress. Join us quarterly as the PorchLight team hosts a different beloved “writer next door.”

Our Spring Reader:

Louisa Hall is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Iowa.  She is the author of the critically acclaimed and award-winning novels Reproduction, Trinity, and Speak.  She is the recipient of fellowships from Macdowell, Yaddo, The T.S. Eliot Foundation, and La Maison de Poesie. Her poems have been published in The New Republic, Southwest Review and other journals.