Jamel Brinkley is the author of A Lucky Man: Stories, a finalist for the National Book Award, the
Story Prize, the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award for Best First Book, and the
PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, and winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary
Excellence. His writing has appeared in The Best American Short Stories
2018, Ploughshares, Gulf Coast, The Threepenny Review, Glimmer Train, and American Short
Fiction, among other places, and has been selected for The Best American Short Stories 2019. He
has received support from Kimbilio Fiction, the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, the Napa
Valley Writers’ Conference, the Tin House Summer Workshop, the Bread Loaf Writers’
Conference, and the Lannan Foundation. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he
currently is a 2018-2020 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University.
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