Tracie Morris Joins Iowa Writers' Workshop Permanent Faculty

Good news for future Iowa Writers' Workshop students: Tracie Morris is joining the permanent faculty. The poet and sound artist will be teaching alongside Jamel Brinkley, Margot Livesey, Charles D’Ambrosio, Ethan Canin, James Galvin, Mark Levine, Elizabeth Willis, and Lan Samantha Chang. More: 

Dr. Morris joined the Workshop this fall as a full professor with tenure and will teach Graduate Poetry Workshop courses and Form of Poetry seminars to students enrolled in the graduate creative writing program. She was the inaugural Distinguished Visiting Professor of Poetry at the Workshop for several semesters before joining the permanent faculty, and she is the first tenured African American full professor of Poetry in the history of the Workshop.

"We are so excited that Tracie is joining our permanent poetry faculty,” says Chang, director of the Workshop and Elizabeth M. Stanley Professor of the Arts. “Her expertise and brilliance of innovation as a poet and performer is revolutionary. She is also an exceptional and inspiring teacher."

The full statement is here.