Kevin Brockmeier
Kevin John Brockmeier is an American writer of fantasy and literary fiction. His short stories have been printed in numerous publications and he has published two collections of stories, two children's novels, and two fantasy novels. Brockmeier, who was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas, is a graduate of Parkview Arts and Science Magnet High School and Southwest Missouri State University. He taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he received his MFA in 1997, and lives in Little Rock.
Brockmeier has won three O. Henry Prizes, the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction, Italo Calvino Short Fiction Award and several and the Booker Worthen Literary Prize and the Porter Fund Literary Prize.Published works
Story collections
- Things That Fall from the Sky
- The View From The Seventh Layer
Novels
- The Truth About Celia
- The Brief History of the Dead
- The Illumination
- A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade
For younger readers
- City of Names
- Grooves: A Kind of Mystery
Miscellaneous stories
- "The Brief History of the Dead"
For more information on individual stories, see Things That Fall from the SkyAnthologies as Editor
- Real Unreal: Best American Fantasy 3, edited by Kevin Brockmeier.
Awards and honors
- O. Henry Award
- Nelson Algren Award
- Italo Calvino Short Fiction Award
- James Michener–Paul Engle Fellowship
- National Endowment for the Arts grant recipient
