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]
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.[2] 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."[3][4]
Brinkley is an alumnus of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, where he was a Kimbilio Fellow in Fiction.[5] 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.[6][4][7]
Awards[]
- Winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award (2019)[8]
- Winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence (2019)[9]
- Finalist for the National Book Award (2018)[10]
- Finalist for The Story Prize (2018)[11]
- Finalist for the John Leonard Award (2018)[12]
References[]
- ^ "ABOUT". Jamel Brinkley. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
- ^ "AitN: December 17, 2018". Columbia College Today. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
- ^ "'A Lucky Man' Challenges Masculinity — With Love". NPR.org. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
- ^ "Jamel Brinkley". Arts + Literature Laboratory. October 25, 2016. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
- ^ "Jamel Brinkley Bio". Literary Arts. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
- ^ "WI Institute for Creative Writing Fellows". WI Institute for Creative Writing. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
- ^ "Awards & Award Winners". PEN Oakland. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
- ^ Johnson, Chevel. "Jamel Brinkley wins Ernest J. Gaines Award recognizing African-American fiction writers". USA Today. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
- ^ "Jamel Brinkley". National Book Foundation. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
- ^ "2018/19". The Story Prize. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
- ^ "Announcing the Finalists for the John Leonard Award for Best First Book – National Book Critics Circle". www.bookcritics.org. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
- Living people
- 21st-century American writers
- PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award winners
- Writers from Brooklyn
- Writers from the Bronx
- Writers from California
- Columbia College (New York) alumni
- Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni