Stuart Dybek

Stuart Dybek was born to Polish immigrants in Chicago, the setting for most of his work, which includes several poetry collections. Dybek is a progenitor of the short-short form, and his fiction includes Childhood and Other Neighborhoods; I Sailed with Magellan ; a New York Times Notable Book; and the collections Ecstatic Cahoots and Paper Lantern , published simultaneously by FSG in 2014. He has won a PEN/Malamud, a Whiting Writers' Award, and numerous O. Henry Prizes. In 2007 he received a...See more

Stuart Dybek was born to Polish immigrants in Chicago, the setting for most of his work, which includes several poetry collections. Dybek is a progenitor of the short-short form, and his fiction includes Childhood and Other Neighborhoods; I Sailed with Magellan ; a New York Times Notable Book; and the collections Ecstatic Cahoots and Paper Lantern , published simultaneously by FSG in 2014. He has won a PEN/Malamud, a Whiting Writers' Award, and numerous O. Henry Prizes. In 2007 he received a MacArthur Fellowship Genius Award and the Rea Award for the Short Story. Dybek teaches at Northwestern and in the renowned Prague Summer Program. See less