Jamel Brinkley: Week of Sept. 20, 2020

Thursday, Sept. 24, 7 p.m.: Live from Prairie Lights

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Jamel Brinkley is the author of A Lucky Man: Stories (2018), a finalist for the National Book Award, the Story Prize, the John Leonard Prize, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; and winner of a PEN Oakland Award and the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in A Public Space, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Gulf Coast, The Threepenny Review, Glimmer Train, American Short Fiction, The Believer, and Tin House, and has been anthologized twice in The Best American Short Stories. His work 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. He was the 2016–17 Carol Houck Smith Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and a 2018–20 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Raised in Brooklyn and the Bronx, he now teaches at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.