Kerry Howley

Kerry Howley (born 1981) is an American writer, and professor at the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program.[1]

Kerry Howley at a reading of her book, Thrown, at Politics and Prose, Washington, D.C., 23 November 2014

Life

She graduated from Georgetown University and University of Iowa. She was an editor at Reason magazine.[2]

Her work has appeared in New York magazine,[3] The Paris Review,[4] and The New Yorker,[5] and she is a regular contributor to Bookforum.[6]

She is married to Will Wilkinson, with whom she has one son.

Works

Books

• Thrown. Louisville, Ky.: Sarabande Books. 2014. ISBN 978-1-936747-92-4.[7][8][9]

Essays

• "It Takes a Family (to Break a Glass Ceiling)". The New York Times. 5 January 2008. p. A15.
• "The Pizza and the Power". New York Times Magazine. 13 March 2011. p. 20.
• "Who Is Reality Winner?". New York Magazine. 25 December 2017.
• "What We Mourned When We Mourned Cecil". The New Yorker. 29 September 2015.

Interviews

• "An Interview with Kerry Howley". Bookslut (Interview). Interviewed by Jill Talbot. March 2015.
• "A Conversation with Kerry Howley, author of Thrown". The Iowa Review (Interview). Interviewed by Alea Adigweme. 2 April 2015.
• "Who Is Reality Winner?". Why is This Happening (Interview). Interviewed by Chris Hayes. MSNBC. 24 January 2020.

References

1. "Kerry Howley | Department of English | College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | The University of Iowa". english.uiowa.edu. Retrieved 2016-09-28.
2. "Kerry Howley". Reason.com. Retrieved 2016-09-28.
3. "Kerry Howley". New York magazine.
4. Howley, Kerry (2011-01-01). "Pretty Citadel". Paris Review (198). ISSN 0031-2037. Retrieved 2016-09-28.
5. https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/kerry-howley
6. http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/017_02/5759
7. Goudie, Jeffrey Ann (4 December 2014). "Review: 'Thrown,' by Kerry Howley". StarTribune. Minneapolis, Minn.
8. Latson, Jennifer (22 October 2014). "Book Review: Thrown by Kerry Howley". The Boston Globe.
9. Dunn, Katherine (14 November 2014). "'Thrown,' by Kerry Howley". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.

External links

• Author page at Reason
• http://www.bookslut.com/features/2015_03_021145.php
• Kerry Howley discusses her book, Thrown at Politics and Prose, 23 November 2014