Another big change for the UI's International Writing Program, with longtime director Christopher Merrill stepping down after ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. IOWA CITY — Six decades after arriving in Iowa — where she would cofound the University of Iowa’s ...

At the end of the year, Merrill will step down as IWP director and focus on writing and teaching as a member of the English ...

L: Author Hualing Nieh as a young girl in mainland China. R: Nieh (R) with Hong Kong documentary filmmaker Angie Chen (R), director of 'One Tree Three Lives,' a new documentary about Nieh's life and ...

When Hualing Nieh Engle first suggested bringing together a group of established writers from around the globe to nurture their artistic creativity on the University of Iowa campus, Paul Engle told ...

US President Jimmy Carter greets novelist Hualing Nieh and her husband, Paul Engle, a fellow writer, at a White House reception. Photos provided to China Daily "I deeply admire the spirit in which ...

"The International Writing Program's meaning has far exceeded literature. For decades, writers from around the world, especially the Third World, have broadened their horizons, which has led to ...

Women’s History Month, recognized in the United States each March, was founded in 1981 when Congress passed Resolution 97-28, authorizing the president of the United States to declare the first week ...

When Chinese writer Ding Ling (1904-1986) arrived at the International Writing Program (IWP) at the University of Iowa in 1981 the program's co-founder Hualing Nieh Engle thought her to be a warm ...

Hualing Nieh Engle at a Beijing workshop of her memoir in 2008. Pu Dongfeng / for China Daily Hualing Nieh Engle, the wife of American poet/writer Paul Engle, has been at the heart of the ...

Hualing Nieh is a world citizen with roots in China and the United States and she has helped push creative writing from developing countries to new heights. Now her work is captured on film, Kelly ...