Christopher Merrill
Director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa
Christopher Merrill is poet, essayist, journalist and translator. Currently, he serves as director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Merrill was a key member of a 2005 Department of State Advisory Committee on Cultural Diplomacy which reviewed the state of America’s diplomacy and produced a report “Cultural Diplomacy: the Linchpin of Public Diplomacy.” Christopher Merrill has published four collections of poetry, translations; and five books of nonfiction, including the recent Tree of Doves: Ceremony, Expedition, War.