Welcome to Iowa: Letters to Carp and Other Immigrants

Kartika Budhwar

Kartika Budhwar writes about porous borderlands where myth meets history, where the colonizer and colonized come together, where languages spar and fuse, where gender and sexuality collapse upon themselves, where the supernatural and the organic have equal claim. 

She has an MFA from North Carolina State University. She is an MFA candidate in the Creative Writing and Environment program at Iowa State University. She was awarded the Hogrefe Grant and the CWE Fellowship. She was the Runner-up for the Indiana Review Fiction Prize, the Arts and Letters Fiction Award and a Finalist for the Frank McCourt Memoir Prize.

Veronica Scharf Garcia

Born in Chile, Veronica Scharf Garcia grew up oversea in South America, Africa, and the Middle East. Now living out of a suitcase for the last two years, she continues her itinerant life in Europe. California was her last home base. Scharf Garcia studied art at Colorado College and with Cristina Galvez in Lima, Peru. She has exhibted her art extensively & been selected as Studio Artist at Bakehouse Art Complex, Deering Estate, Art Center/South in Florida. Schaf Garcia was selected to four residencies as Associate Artist, one sponsored by the Andy Warhol Foundation. You can contact her at verogoart@gmail.com.