Novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson teaches at the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. Her first novel, Housekeeping (1980), won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Gilead, Robinson’s second novel, won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize. Her most recent novel, Home, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Home is a companion piece to Gilead and won the Orange Prize for fiction. In her most recent non-fiction book, Absence of Mind, Robinson aims to "examine one side in the venerable controversy called the conflict between science and religion." She has also written a book of essays, The Death of Adam, which explores how people’s voices from the past have shaped our present civilization. Robinson lives in Iowa City, Iowa.

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