Jamel Brinkley

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Jamel Brinkley
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NationalityAmerican
Education
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.

Contents

Biography

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. [1] [2] [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]

His second book, Witness, won the Maya Angelou Book Award and he accepted the award over a video call in 2024. [6]

Brinkley is an alumnus of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop and 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. [5] [8] [9]

Awards

Awards for Brinkley's writing
YearTitleAwardCateogoryResultRef.
2018A Lucky Man National Book Award Fiction Finalist [10]
National Book Critics Circle Award John Leonard Prize Finalist [11]
The Story Prize —Finalist [12]
2019 Aspen Words Literary Prize —Longlisted [13]
Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence —Won [14]
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Début FictionFinalist [15]
PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award —Won [16]
PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize —Finalist [17] [18]
2024Witness Aspen Words Literary Prize —Shortlisted [19]
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction —Finalist [20]

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