STUART DYBEK is the author of three books of fiction: I Sailed With Magellan, a novel-in-stories, The Coast of Chicago, and Childhood and Other Neighborhoods. Each was selected as a New York Times Notable Book. Dybek also has published two book of poetry: Streets in Their Own Ink and Brass Knuckles. All his books are currently in print. A chapbook of short short fiction and prose poems, The Story of Mist, was published in 1993. Dybek’s fiction, poetry, and nonfiction have appeared in numerous magazines including The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Atlantic, Granta, Tin House, Paris Review, Poetry, and Ploughshares. His work has been translated into several languages and is frequently anthologized, including anthologies from Norton and Scribners that are widely used in college classes. His work is often chosen for best of the year anthologies including work in both Best American Fiction and Best American Poetry. His stories are read frequently on NPR stations and have been adapted for film and stage, most recently productions of The Coast of Chicago at the Lookingglass Theater in Chicago in 2006, and I Sailed With Magellan at Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago in 2007.

In 2007, Dybek was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, and in the same year, the Rea Award for “significant contribution to the short story form,” and the Mark Twain Award for “distinguished contributions of Midwestern literature.” In 2004, The Coast of Chicago was selected for the “One Book, One Chicago” program. Other awards include the Prize for Fiction from the Society of Midland Authors for I Sailed With Magellan, which was also selected by the American Library Association as one of the twenty-six best books of 2005. Dybek has also been the recipient of a Lannan Award, the PEN/Bernard Malamud Prize “for distinctive achievement in the short story form,” an 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. His stories have received four O. Henry Prizes including an O. Henry first prize for his story “Hot Ice.” His story “Blight” was awarded the Nelson Algren Prize, and his collection, Childhood and Other Neighborhoods, received the Prize for Fiction from the Society of Midland Authors, a Special Citation from the PEN/Hemingway Prize Committee, and the Cliff Dwellers Award from the Friends of Literature. He has received a Michigan Arts Award, two grants from the Michigan Council for the Arts, and two Pushcart Prizes.

Dybek earned an MFA from the University of Iowa where he took workshops in both fiction and poetry and was awarded a Teaching/Writing fellowship and the Academy of American Poets Competition Prize. He has an MA in Literature from Loyola University--Chicago. He is currently, the Distinguished Writer in Residence at Northwestern University, and professor emeritus of English at Western Michigan University. He is a member of the permanent faculty for the Prague Summer Writing Program, and he has taught as a visiting professor at Princeton, the University of Iowa’s Writers Workshop, the University of California-Irvine, The University of Chicago, and in the Warren Wilson MFA Program.