Free Gen for February: Mauricio Ruiz

The Free Generative Writing Workshops provide a space for career writers, curious beginners, writers of all levels and stages of life. Our goal is to make it easy to meet and learn from some of the most talented writer/teachers living in or passing through Iowa City. Every month a new writer leads a generative workshop, presenting a prompt inspired by their own preoccupations, passions, or interests.

Co-sponsored by Iowa City Poetry and PorchLight Literary Arts Center.

This month's leader: Mauricio Ruiz

Date: Sunday, Feb 16, 5:30-7 pm Central (3:30 P, 4:30 M, 6:30 E)

Platforms: You're invited to attend online or in person

• To attend online, register HERE. After registering, the Zoom link will be automatically emailed to you
• To attend in person, please join us at PorchLight Literary Arts Center, 1019 E. Washington, Iowa City. 

MAURICIO RUIZ  is a novelist, translator, and cultural journalist. He has lived in Norway, Belgium and the US. He’s been shortlisted for the Bridport and Fish Short Story Prizes, and received fellowships from OMI Writers (New York, US), Jakob Sande (Sunnfjord, Norway), Three Seas Council (Rhodes, Greece), Société des auteurs (Brussels, Belgium), and Can Serrat (Catalonia, Spain). His work has appeared in Words Without Borders, Electric Literature, The Common, The Rumpus, The Masters Review, Letras Libres, Gatopardo, among others. He has published two collections of short stories and is at work on his fourth novel. He’s currently a grad student in creative writing at the University of Iowa.