JAMEL BRINKLEY is the author of A Lucky Man: Stories, which won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the Story Prize, the John Leonard Prize, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. He has also won an O. Henry Prize, the Rome Prize, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and a Lannan Foundation Fellowship. His work has appeared in La Revista de París, A Public Space, Rejas de arado, y Los mejores cuentos estadounidenses. He was raised in the Bronx and Brooklyn, New York, and currently teaches at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His latest book is the 10-story collection Testigo: Historias (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
