The Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa is the preeminent college and graduate-level creative writing program in the United States.

Created in the university's English Department by poet Paul Engle , the program is the model for the numerous creative writing programs offered throughout the country today.

Notable graduates of the program include:

Robert Bly

T. Coraghessan Boyle

Raymond Carver

Sandra Cisneros

Andre Dubus

Stuart Dybek

Pai Hsien-yung

John Irving

Gish Jen

Donald Justice

Tracy Kidder

W.P. Kinsella

Philip Levine

David Wong Louie

Bharati Mukherjee

Flannery O'Connor

Wallace Stegner

Jane Smiley

John Edgar Wideman

Dow Mossman