Name: IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series
Start: 2025-09-07T16:00:00-05:00
Location: 15 S Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA, United States, Iowa 52240

Please join us for our annual IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series! This week’s event features IWP Residents Roy Horovitz (Israel) and Andra Schwarz (Germany). An accompanying grad student from either the Writers' Workshop or the Iowa NWP will be announced soon.
Roy Horovitz (theatre director, translator, dramaturge; Israel) is the author of A World of Innocents: The Afterlife of the Bible in Yaakov Shabtai's Plays. He is the winner of the "Scientific Excellence Award" (2022), Best Actor Award (Haifa Festival, 1997) and Best Director Award (Tel Aviv, 2011). He is the chair of the drama & theatre program at Bar-Ilan University and is currently translating two plays (one American, one Russian) to Hebrew. His participation is courtesy of Fulbright Israel (USIEF).
Andra Schwarz (poet; Germany) is the author of Tulpa (2023) and Meteor (2023). Her first poetry collection, In the morning we are glass, was translated from the German by Caroline Wilcox Reul and published by Zephyr Press in 2021 (US). She has been awarded residencies for her work in various European countries such as Austria, Latvia, Czech Republic and Poland, and won the Leonce and Lena Prize in 2017. She is currently working on her next poetry collection. Her participation is made possible by the Max Kade Foundation.