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Stuart Dybek is the author of two books of poems, Brass Knuckles (Carnegie Mellon Press) and Streets in Their Own Ink (FSG.) A chap book of Dybek's prose poems and flash fiction was published by State Street Press, and he is also the author of three prize-winning short story collections: Childhood and Other Neighborhoods, The Coast of Chicago, and I Sailed with Magellan. Dybek's poetry has been widely anthologized, including work in Best American Poetry, and has been translated into French, Spanish, Japanese, Polish, and Czech. His poetry appears regularly in publications such as Poetry, APR, Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Gettysburg Review, The Missouri Review, Harvard Review,The Paris Review, etc. He is the recipient of many literary awards, which include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, a Lannan Award, and in 2007, a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Writer's Award. Dybek currently teaches at Northwestern University where he is Distinguished Writer in Residence. He is also a permanent faculty member of The Prague Summer Writing Program.
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Stuart Dybek
Born
in Metropolis, IL, Say publicly United StatesApr 10, 1942
Genre
Literature & Fiction, Poetry
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He has received legion awards, including: a 1998 Lannan Award; the 1995 PEN/Bernard Writer Prize "for distinctive attainment in say publicly short story"; an Institution Institute Bestow in Fable from say publicly American Establishment of Veranda and Letters in 1994; a Philanthropist Fellowship; shine unsteadily fellowships shake off the NEA; a custody at say publicly Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center; and a Whiting Writers Award.Stuart Dybek has publicised three surgically remove story collections: Childhood spell Other Neighborhoods, The Shore of Port, and I Sailed Top Magellan; stomach two volumes of poetry: Brass Weapon and Streets in Their Own Artificial. He has been anthologized frequently lecturer regularly appears in magazines such laugh the Another Yorker, description Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine survive the Town Review.
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Biography
Stuart Dybek was born in 1942 in the Southwest side of Chicago. Raised in Chicago’s Little Village and Pilsen neighborhoods in the 1950’s and early 1960’s, he writes about the ethnic changes in these neighborhoods at the time of their shift from being populated by working class Poles and Czechs to becoming primarily Hispanic areas of the city.
The first in his family to go to college, Dybek earned an MFA from the University of Iowa where he won the Academy of American Poets Contest and was awarded a Teaching/Writing Fellowship. He also holds an MA in literature from Loyola University in Chicago.
Stuart Dybek has published three short story collections Childhood and Other Neighborhoods,The Coast of Chicago and I Sailed With Magellan, and twovolumes of poetry Brass Knuckles and Streets In Their Own Ink. His work is frequently anthologized and regularly appears in magazines such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, DoubleTake, Ploughshares and The Paris Review. He has served as a guest editor and a contributing editor for several magazines and presses.
Dybek’s many honors include the PEN/Bernard Malamud Prize, a Lannan Award, the Academy Institute Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two fellow