The Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa is the preeminent college and graduate-level creative writing program in the United States.
Created in the university's English Department by poet Paul Engle, the program is the model for the numerous creative writing programs offered throughout the country today.
Notable graduates of the program include:
- T. Coraghessan Boyle
- Raymond Carver
- Sandra Cisneros
- Andre Dubus
- Stuart Dybek
- Robert Bly
- John Irving
- Gish Jen
- Tracy Kidder
- W.P. Kinsella
- Phil Levine
- David Wong Louie
- Bharati Mukherjee
- Flannery O'Connor
- Wallace Stegner
- Jane Smiley
- John Edgar Wideman