Image Faculty Title Adjunct Faculty Education MFA, University of Iowa; BA, University of Wisconsin–Madison Maya Hlavacek is a writer of fiction and screenplays. She received her MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2017, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow, a Teaching Writing Fellow, and recipient of the Maytag Award. She has lectured on writing at the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference, Arts Share Iowa, the Loft Literary Center, and elsewhere.