Author Wendy Walters visited the University of Iowa campus September 13, 2018 to deliver a lecture in the Creative Matters series. Below are stories, text, photos, and other materials chronicling and related to the visit.

Wendy S. Walters is the author of a book of prose, Multiply/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal, named a best book of the year by Buzzfeed, Flavorwire, Literary Hub, The Root, and Huffington Post. She is also the author of two books of poems, Troy, Michigan and Longer I Wait, More You Love Me.Walters has been awarded fellowships from Mass MoCA, New York Foundation for the Arts, The Ford Foundation, and many others.

A video of the remarks is also available at https://youtu.be/Xrr3VCUSR3k

Photos by Miranda Meyer.

Creative Matters is an initiative of the UI Arts Advancement Committee and is sponsored by the UI Office of the Vice President for Research.

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The Office of the Vice President for Research provides resources and support to researchers and scholars at the University of Iowa and to businesses across Iowa with the goal of forging new frontiers of discovery and innovation and promoting a culture of creativity that benefits the campus, the state, and the world.

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