Lan Samantha Chang has been chosen to lead the Iowa Writers’ Workshop:
Chang, 40, a workshop graduate and former faculty member, was chosen from four finalists to succeed Frank Conroy, who led the prestigious program for 18 years before his death last week from cancer.
“I’m just so very happy to be coming back to Iowa City,” Chang said Monday from her office as a creative writing lecturer at Harvard University. “I feel, in some ways, I’m coming back to my roots.”
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