Summer Faculty Reading: Ada Zhang and Tom Drury

Summer Faculty Reading: Ada Zhang and Tom Drury promotional image

Join us for a reading by Workshop summer faculty:

Ada Zhang's short stories have appeared in A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. The Sorrows of Others, her first story collection, was published by A Public Space Books. She is a 2024 Whiting Award Winner in Fiction and 2023 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree.

Tom Drury is the author of Pacific, The End of Vandalism, Hunts in Dreams, The Driftless Area, and The Black Brook. His novels have been translated into Spanish, German, and French. His essays and short fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Harper’s, Granta, The New York Times Magazine, the Mississippi Review, and Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. In 2000-2001 he was a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.

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Wednesday, July 8, 2026 7:00pm
Glenn Schaeffer Library
Frank Conroy Reading Room
507 North Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA 52245
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