Kerry Howley

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Kerry Howley’s essays, reviews, stories and reportage have appeared in The Paris Review, Harper’s, New York Magazine, Granta, The New York Times Magazine, Slate, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, Gulf Coast, Vice.com, and frequently in Bookforum. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop, where she was admitted as an Arts Fellow and subsequently served as the 2012 Provost’s Visiting Writer in Nonfiction. Thrown, her book-length essay, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2014 and is forthcoming in German, British, Dutch, French, and Swedish editions.

Howley is an assistant professor at the Iowa Writers Workshop, where she teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program. She lives in Iowa City with her husband, son, and vizsla.

Prize anthology mentions

Pushcart (CNF) 2014*

Best American Essays 2016*

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