Vlora Konushevci October 16, 2025

Location: Escondido Theater, SUB at 5:00 PM

Sponsored by generous support from the TTU Humanities Center, the Thomas Jay Harris Institute for Hispanic and International Communication in the TTU College of Media and Communications, the University of Iowa's International Writing Program and the TTU Department of English, the TTU Creative Writing Program is proud to feature Vlora Konushevci, a visiting writer and translator from Kosovo.

Vlora KONUSHEVCI (poet, translator, and essayist; Kosovo) is the author of the poetry collection Lavdi Vetes and the editor-translator of the bilingual anthologies Poetry Without Borders (Albanian–Serbian) and Magma (Albanian–English). Her poetry and translations appear in The Common, Songs of Eretz, and European Literature Network. A winner of multiple literary awards and a contributor to Kosovo's cultural press, she also works as a certified translator for national and international institutions. Her participation is made possible thanks to the University of Iowa's Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate College.

Find a sample of her writing on her University of Iowa faculty page.