While the staff of The Iowa Book Doctors hails from vastly different homes, we've all become neighbors in this small town. Some of us are Southern girls from the swamps of Louisiana and the hills of Tennessee. A few of us have worked in the great publishing houses of New York, or bustled alongside the glitterati of Hollywood. We are former lawyers, investment bankers, waitresses, journalists, and computer programmers, in addition to being talented writers.

The Iowa Book Doctors offers you the best of both worlds. We bring an array of cosmopolitan and regional perspectives, but also the small town values that you learn when your neighbors become your friends. We combine a variety of experiences with our midwestern work ethic, and that combination produces the vision and integrity necessary for any task. Whatever your project may be, the Doctors who work with you will be handpicked to suit your work. We promise.

Our Doctors have held editorial positions with over 30 journals and publishing houses, including Prentiss Hall, Iowa Review, McGraw-Hill, Greensboro Review, International Poetry Review, and Pergamon Press.

We've published books with Harper-Collins, Antares Press, Oxford University Press, Simon and Schuster, Peachpit Press, and St. Martins press, written screenplays for Walt Disney, and been anthologized in Best New American Voices 2001.

We've contributed to over 50 magazines and newspapers, including Black Warrior Review, GQ, Greensboro Review, Prairie Schooner, The Antioch Review, Boulevard, American Book Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Story Quarterly, Third Coast, and MidAmerican Review.

We've received such honors as The Michener Fellowship, The Reader's Choice Award, The Yale Grant, The Elmore A. Willets Prize, The Breadloaf Fellowship, The Pirates Alley Faulkner Society Short Story Contest, The Glimmertrain Contest, and others.

Of course, each of us is also a student or graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the first creative writing degree program in a U.S. university. Each of us came to Iowa to attend this incredible program. Though The Iowa Book Doctors is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Writers' Workshop, we all learned a great deal there, where each of us was honored to work with many of the country's top writers and teachers.