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Jamel Brinkley

Dec 5, 2019

08:00 PM

Glenn Schaeffer Library, Frank Conroy Reading Room

507 North Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA 52245

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Jamel Brinkley

National Book Award Finalist Jamel Brinkley will read from A Lucky Man: Stories. "Each story is a trenchant exploration of race and class, vividly conveying the tension between social codes of masculinity and the vulnerable, volatile self."—The New Yorker

Jamel Brinkley's stories have appeared in A Public Space, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has been a Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellow.

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