Fiction writer Madeline McDonnell and poet Caryl Pagel, both graduates of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, will read from their work at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 16, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website.

McDonnell is a graduate of Brown University, where she was a Rose Writing Fellow, and the UI Writers’ Workshop, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow. She has taught writing at the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio, Cornish College of the Arts, and the UI; she has also worked as an editor and lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary. Her tiny story collection, There Is Something Inside, It Wants to Get Out, was published by Rescue Press.

Pagel is the author of the poetry collection Experiments I Should Like Tried at My Own Death. Her poems and essays have appeared in AGNI, Denver Quarterly, Devil’s Lake, Jacket2, and Thermos. She is the co-founder and editor of Rescue Press, a poetry editor at jubilat, and the curator of The Eleventh Hour Lecture Series at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival.

The Iowa Writers’ Workshop is a graduate program in the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all UI-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this reading, call Jan Weissmiller at Prairie Lights, 319-337-2681.

For a UI arts calendar and details about upcoming events visit the new Arts Iowa website.