# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Jonathan Gleason in conv with Sarah Minor - Field Guide to Falling Ill: Essays 
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 20 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Iowa MFA graduate Jonathan Gleason will read from his debut essay collection, Field Guide to Falling Ill, and will be joined in conversation with Sarah Minor. Described by Publishers Weekly as "Enlightening and beautifully written," Field Guide to Falling Ill is also praised by former Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program professor Kerry Howley as "[A] well wrought and consistently surprising collection from an unexpected narrator" and by bestselling author and current NWP professor Melissa Febos as: "A stunning debut...Gleason renders the many vulnerabilities of the body with exquisite prose and probing intelligence."

Jonathan Gleason is a writer, instructor, medical interpreter, and recent graduate of the University of Iowa's MFA program in creative writing. His manuscript Field Guide to Falling Ill is the winner of the inaugural Yale Nonfiction Book Prize. He was also a recipient of a 2023 grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation, and a 2024 finalist for the 2024 Granum Prize. His work is anthologized in Best American Essays (2024) and has appeared in The Sun Magazine, Literary Hub, New England Review, The Kenyon Review, Colorado Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Fugue, Denver Quarterly, Redivider Journal, and others.  

Sarah Minor is a writer and interdisciplinary artist.​ She's the author of Carousel, forthcoming from Yale University Press, Slim Confessions: The Universe as a Spider or Spit (Noemi Press, 2021), Bright Archive (Rescue Press, 2020), and the chapbook The Persistence of The Bonyleg: Annotated (Essay Press, 2016). Minor serves as the Video Essay and Cinepoetry Editor at BRINK Magazine and on the Nonfiction editorial team at TriQuarterly Review. She holds a PhD from Ohio University, an MFA from the University of Arizona, and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa's Nonfiction MFA Program.
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- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
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- **city**: Iowa City
- **state**: IA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 15 S Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA, United States, Iowa 52240
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- **full address**: 15 S Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA, United States, Iowa 52240

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 20 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 15 S Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA, United States, Iowa 52240
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Prairie Lights Bookstore
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