Iowa Wordwrights - Staff Profiles

Profiles of the founders and senior staff of the Iowa Wordwrights are provided below. With an overall staff that presently includes more than a dozen editors specializing in a variety of fiction and non-fiction genres, we are confident we can provide the appropriate perspective on your work.

If it is winter in the book, spring surprises me when I look up.
- Bernard Malamud


		Paula Morris Senior Editor Paula Morris is an Assistant Professor of English at Tulane University, where she teaches creative writing. She is the author of Trendy But Casual (Penguin, 2007), Hibiscus Coast (Penguin, 2005), which was recently optioned for film by Touchdown Productions, and Queen of Beauty (Penguin, 2002). Called a "stunning debut novel" by the New Zealand Herald, Queen of Beauty won Best First Book at the 2003 New Zealand Book Awards and received the International Institute of Modern Letters' Adam Award. Paula received her Ph.D. from the University of York (England) and her B.A. from the University of Auckland (New Zealand). She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she received the Glenn Schaeffer Fellowship and served as the University of Iowa International Programs' 2003 writer-in-residence. She has worked for BBC Radio and BMG Entertainment, where she served as vice president of marketing for RCA Victor.	Hibiscus Coast (Penguin, 2005) More Information Other Titles by Paula Morris

		Kerry Egan Senior Editor Kerry Egan is the author of Fumbling: A Pilgrimage Tale of Love, Grief, and Spiritual Renewal on the Camino de Santiago (Doubleday, 2004), which was chosen as a 2004 Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. She has appeared on CNN's Daybreak and NPR's Live at Prairie Lights and at readings and festivals throughout the United States. Kerry received her Masters of Divinity from Harvard University and has worked as a hospital chaplain in Boston, Brooklyn, New York and Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A former editor for McGraw-Hill Companies, Kerry focuses on spiritual and religious memoir for the Iowa Wordwrights. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband, children and two large dogs.	Fumbling: A Pilgrimage Tale of Love, Grief and Spiritual Renewal on the Camino de Santiago (Doubleday 2004) Available on amazon.com

		Robert Rosenberg Senior Editor Robert Rosenberg is the author of the novel This Is Not Civilization (Houghton Mifflin, 2004), which was a Borders' Original Voices pick and the recipient of the 2005 Maria Thomas Fiction Award. He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Kyrgyzstan from 1994-1996 and later taught high school on the White Mountain Apache Reservation in Arizona. Robert is a graduate of Columbia University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was awarded a Maytag Fellowship and a Teaching/Writing Fellowship. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Bucknell University, where he teaches creative writing.	This is Not Civilization (Houghton Mifflin, 2004) Available on amazon.com

		Brian Richman President Brian Richman is the president of the Iowa Wordwrights. He received his MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2003, where he taught undergraduate creative writing and served as a reader for the 2001 Iowa Short Fiction Award and John Simmons Short Fiction Award. Brian is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and was a partner of E. J. De La Rosa & Co., a California- based investment banking firm, from 1993-2000. He serves on the faculty of the University of Iowa's Tippie College of Business and is at work on his first novel.

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