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A native Ohioan, Jerry Gabriel has also lived in Arizona, Iowa, New Zealand and New York. Currently he resides in St. Inigoes, Maryland, with his wife, poet Karen Leona Anderson, their daughter Eva, and their hound Moxy. His first book of fiction, Drowned Boy, was the winner of the 2008 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and will be published in January 2010 by Sarabande Books. It has been chosen as a Barnes and Noble "Discover Great New Writers" Selection and is a 2010 Barnes and Noble Discover Award finalist.
Mr. Gabriel holds degrees from The Ohio State University, Northern Arizona University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Currently, he is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at St. Mary's College of Maryland. Prior to that he was a lecturer in Cornell University's Engineering Communications Program, where he also taught creative writing through Cornell at Auburn, a university program for prisoners at New York's Auburn Correctional Facility. He has also written about science for a number of publications. His short stories have appeared in One Story, Epoch, and Fiction, among other magazines. His work has been short-listed for a Pushcart Prize, and he was awarded an artist grant in 2004 by the New York Foundation for the Arts. He is currently at work on a novel, Resurrecting the Single Wing, about an Ohio high school football coach. Contact |