The Free Gen with Asha Galindo

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.

Asha Galindo writes personal essays about family and childhood, punctuated by class and pop cultural commentary. She has an MFA from the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program. In 2021, she co-wrote the book Toyon: Seven Decades of Student-Driven Publishing. Other writing has appeared in Marchxness, OxMag, and Toyon. A Californian at heart,…