Stuart Dybek
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Stuart Dybek (b. 1942 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American writer and author of five books.
His two collections of poems are Brass Knuckles (Carnegie Mellon, 1979) and Streets in Their Own Ink (Farrar, 2004). His fiction includes Childhood and Other Neighborhoods, The Coast of Chicago, and most recently I Sailed With Magellan, a novel-in-stories. His work is frequently anthologized and appears regularly in magazines such as Harper's, The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Tin House, Ploughshares, and Triquarterly.
Dybek's work often explores the nature of neighborhoods. Drawing on his own background in Chicago, Dybek explores issues of community identity, immigration, and displacement.
Dybek taught at Western Michigan University and now teaches at Northwestern University. He earned an MFA from the University of Iowa and holds an MA in literature from Loyola University Chicago.
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Dybek's work has won numerous awards, among them a Lannan Prize, a PEN/Malamud Award, a Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim, and numerous O. Henry Prizes and inclusions in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Poetry.
