Jamel Brinkley | |
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Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | American |
Education |
Columbia University Iowa Writers' Workshop ( MFA) |
Notable awards |
Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence (2019) PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award (2019) |
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. He currently teaches fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. [1] [2]
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. [3]
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." [4] [5]
Brinkley is an alumnus of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop and was also a Kimbilio Fellow in Fiction. [6] 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. [5] [7] [8]
Year | Title | Award | Result | Ref. |
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2018 | A Lucky Man | John Leonard Award | Finalist | [9] |
National Book Award for Fiction | Finalist | [10] | ||
The Story Prize | Finalist | [11] | ||
2019 | Aspen Words Literary Prize | Longlist | [12] | |
Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence | Winner | [13] | ||
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award | Finalist | [14] | ||
PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award | Winner | [15] | ||
PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize | Finalist | [16] [17] | ||
2024 | Witness | Aspen Words Literary Prize | Finalist | [18] |
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction | Finalist | [19] |