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Stuart Dybek is the author of two collections of stories: The Coast of Chicago (Knopf/Vintage, 1990) and Childhood and Other Neighborhoods (Viking/Ecco, 1980), as well as a collection of poems, Brass Knuckles (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1979). A chapbook of short fiction and prose poems, The Story of Mist (State Street Press), appeared in 1993. His fiction, poetry, and nonfiction have appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper's, Paris Review, Antaeus, Poetry, TriQuarterly, and Ploughshares. He has been the recipient of many awards, including a Lannan Award in 1999, the 1995 PEN/Bernard Malamud Prize, an Academy Institute Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two fellowships from the NEA, a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center, and a Whiting Writers Award. In addition, he has received four O. Henry Prizes, a Pushcart Prize, and the Nelson Algren Prize. A novel-in-stories and a new collection of poems are forthcoming in the fall of 2003 and spring of 2004 (both books from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux). Picador will reissue The Coast of Chicago in the fall of 2003. He has taught creative writing at Princeton and at the University of California at Irvine, as well as in the Warren Wilson MFA Program. He currently teaches English at Western Michigan University.
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