Poets & Writers

Jamel Brinkley

whose debut story collection, A Lucky Man, was published in May by Graywolf Press.

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Danielle Evans author of the story collection Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, published by Riverhead Books in 2010.

Jamel Brinkley’s debut story collection, , was published in May by Graywolf Press and has already been greeted with critical acclaim by NPR, among others. Brinkley is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, a former fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the Kimbilio Retreat, and the Tin House Writers Workshop, and beginning in the fall

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