Meet our writers

Newcomers: Here is a link to the Iowa Writers’ Collaborative Sunday Roundup, where you can get a compilation of our members’ work published the previous week.

The Iowa Writers Collaborative is made up of some of the foremost regional journalists in the country.

Each writer is independent and has a Substack of their own.

Who We Are

Iowa Writers’ Collaborative Roster

Des Moines Metro

Chip Albright: Chip Happens

Rekha Basu: Shouts and Whispers

Kelsey Bigelow: There’s a Poem in That

Dartanyan L. Brown: My Integrated Life

Jane Burns: The Crossover

John Busbee: Culture Buzz

Dave Busiek: Dave Busiek on Media

Tej Dhawan, Cultural Record of Central Iowa’s Technology, Grimes

Christina Fernández-Morrow: Hola Iowa

Daniel P. Finney: Paragraph Stacker

Lynn Hicks: True Justice

Abena Sankofa Imhotep: The Imhotep Report

Wini Moranville: Wini’s Food Stories

Kyle Munson: Kyle Munson’s Main Street

John Naughton: My Life in Color

Dave Price: Dave Price’s Perspective

West Des Moines

Jane Nguyen: The Asian Iowan

Norwalk

Macey Shofroth: The Midwest Creative

Clive

Dennis Goldford: Let’s Talk Politics

Altoona

Ken Chester: TecMobility

Bondurant

Kali White VanBaale: Mind the Gap

Ankeny

Rob Gray: Rob Gray’s Area

Christie Vilsack: Common Ground, Van Meter

Connie Taylor, Grandma’s Recipe Box, Des Moines

Eastern Iowa

Cedar Rapids

Todd Dorman: 24-hour Dorman

Mike Hlas: Out of Bounds

Carol Montage: Monday’s Music

Lyle Muller: Lyle Muller Doesn’t Have a Fancy Column Title

Jeff Morrison: Between Two Rivers

Iowa City

Michael Judge: The First Person

Ty Rushing: Ty’s Take

Kitty Sheehan: Man-Pleasing Recipes

Zachary Oren Smith: Cornhole Champions

North Liberty

Steve Semken: Ice Cube Press, LLC

Davenport (Quad Cities)

Ed Tibbetts: Along the Mississippi

Eldridge

Deidre Cox Baker: Baker’s Heartbeat

Waterloo

Pat Kinney: View from Cedar Valley

Elkader

Larry Stone: Listening to the Land

Boone County

Cheryl Tevis: Unfinished Business

Quad Cities

Tory Brecht: Brecht’s Beat

Northwestern Iowa

Storm Lake

Art Cullen: Art Cullen’s Notebook

Joan Zwagerman: Nuts and Bolts

Carroll

Douglas Burns: The Iowa Mercury

Sioux Center

Nicole Baart: This Stays Here

Okoboji

David Thoreson: Northwest Passages

Northern Iowa

St. Ansgar

Kurtis Meyer: Showing Up

Decorah

Hannah Breckbill: Humble Hands Harvest

Mason City

Lisa Grouette, Lisa Explains it All

Southern Iowa

Lovilia

Beth Hoffman: In the Dirt

Knoxville

Robert Leonard: Deep Midwest: Politics and Culture

Ottumwa

Rachelle Chase: Reading with Rachelle

Central-West Iowa

Jefferson

Chad Elliott: Iowa’s Renaissance Man

Jefferson

Rick Morain

Yetter

Darcy Maulsby: Keepin’ It Rural

Boone County

Cheryl Tevis: Unfinished Business

Southwestern Iowa

Council Bluffs

Marie Torres: Maria Torres

Creston

Sarah Scull: The Piecemaker

Kathryn Severing Fox: Creston

South-Central Iowa

Chariton

Lea Donovan: Anglo Back Forty

Earlham

Jason Walsmith: The Racontourist

Madison County

Debra Engle: A Whole New World

Winterset

Marianne Fons: Reporting From Quiltropolis

Vicki Minor: Relatively Minor

Vicki Minor: Narratives and Notes

Southeastern Iowa

Washington

Daniel Henderson: Things We Don’t Talk About, Like Religion

Marengo

Avery Gregurich: The Five and Dime

Kalona

Mary Swander: Mary Swander’s Buggy Land

Iowa at Large

Laura Belin: Iowa Politics with Laura Belin

Randy Evans: Stray Thoughts

Julie Gammack: Julie Gammack’s Iowa Potluck

Arnold Garson: Second Thoughts

Nik Heftman: The Seven Times

Rick Jost: Biz Whispers: Fresh Iowa Business News and Commentary

Iowa Capital Dispatch

Black Iowa News: Dana James

Letters From Iowans

Hola Iowa

Diana Wright: Startup Iowa’s Hot List

Chuck Offenburger: Iowa Boy Chuck Offenburger

Out of State with an Iowa Connection

Romen Borsellino: Hollywood, CA

District of Columbia

Peter Hedges: New York, NY

Barry Piatt: Piatt on Politics Behind the Curtain, Washington, D.C.

Michigan

Phoebe Wall Howard: Shifting Gears, Detroit, MI

Massachusetts

Chris Gloninger: Weathering Climate Change, MA