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
Dave Busiek: Dave Busiek on Media
Christina Fernández-Morrow: Hola Iowa
Daniel P. Finney: Paragraph Stacker
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
Teresa Zilk: Talking Good
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
Maxwell Schaeffer: Maxwell’s Voice
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
Oelwein
John Crabtree: Though the Heavens Fall
Carol Montag: Monday’s Music
Jeff Morrison: Between Two Rivers
Iowa City
Nina Elkadi: Corn Belt Confidential
Michael Judge: The First Person
Ty Rushing: Ty’s Take
Zachary Oren Smith: Cornhole Champions
North Liberty
Steve Semken: Ice Cube Press, LLC
Davenport (Quad Cities)
Ed Tibbetts: Along the Mississippi
Alison McGaughey: In the Fields
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 City
Taylor Decker: Taylor’s Millennial Mindset
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

Southern Iowa

Lovilia
Beth Hoffman: In the Dirt
Bussey
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

Creston
Sarah Scull: The Piecemaker
Kathryn Severing Fox: Creston

South-Central Iowa

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
Florida
Stacey Walker: Dispatch Revolution, FL