The Free Gen with Devanshi Khetarpal

Co-sponsored by PorchLight and Iowa City Poetry, the Free Generative Writing Workshops provide a space for career writers, curious beginners, writers of all income 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. It has been an adventure, and we are continually inspired by the creative concentration of participants, and the powerful beginnings the workshop generates.

Devanshi Khetarpal is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was the Truman Capote and Sonny Mehta Fellow in fiction. She is currently an MFA Candidate in Literary Translation at the University of Iowa, and an Associate Poetry Editor for The Bombay Literary Magazine. Devanshi holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in…