We Wanted to Be Writers: Life, Love, and Literature at the Iowa Writers' Workshop
Eric Olsenis a journalist and graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He directed the U.S. branch of the International Institute of Modern Letters and created the first American City of Asylum, which provided a safe haven for persecuted writers. He was also an executive editor at Time Inc. Health, a Time Warner company. This is his sixth book.Glenn Schaefferwas, for twenty years, president of Mandalay Resort Group in Las Vegas. In 2009, Liberty Media rated him as the gaming industry's most influential executive, after Steve Wynn. Schaeffer is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and he's finally finishing a novel he started there thirty years ago,Holy Shaker.Bill Manhireis a professor at the International Institute  of Modern Letters at Victoria University in Wellington, New  Zealand, where he resides.