Jamel Brinkley

Jamel Brinkley is an American writer. His debut story collection, A Lucky Man (2018), was the winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award and the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. It was also a finalist for the National Book Award, The Story Prize, the John Leonard Award, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize.[1] He currently teaches fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.[2][3]

Life & writing

Jamel Brinkley was raised in Brooklyn and the Bronx, New York City. He graduated from Columbia University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he teaches.[4] His first book, A Lucky Man, is set in New York City and explores themes of family relationships, love, loss, complex identity, and masculinity. NPR said of the collection, "[It] may include only nine stories, but in each of them, Brinkley gives us an entire world."[5][6]

Brinkley is an alumnus of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, and he was also a Kimbilio Fellow in Fiction.[7] He graduated with an MFA in creative writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He was the 2016-2017 Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and a 2018-2020 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University.[8][6][9]

Awards

References
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  3. "Jamel Brinkley | Iowa Writers' Workshop | College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | The University of Iowa". writersworkshop.uiowa.edu. Retrieved May 1, 2022.
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  5. "'A Lucky Man' Challenges Masculinity — With Love". NPR.org. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
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  9. "WI Institute for Creative Writing Fellows". WI Institute for Creative Writing. Archived from the original on January 6, 2014. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
  10. "Awards & Award Winners". PEN Oakland. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
  11. Johnson, Chevel. "Jamel Brinkley wins Ernest J. Gaines Award recognizing African-American fiction writers". USA Today. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
  12. "Jamel Brinkley". National Book Foundation. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
  13. "2018/19". The Story Prize. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
  14. "Announcing the Finalists for the John Leonard Award for Best First Book – National Book Critics Circle". www.bookcritics.org. December 10, 2018. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
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