Kevin Brockmeier is the author of “The Brief History of the Dead” (2006), “Grooves: A Kind of Mystery” (2006), “The Truth about Celia” (2003), “City of Names” (2002), and “Things That Fall From the Sky” (2002). He has had stories published in “The Georgia Review”, “The Carolina Review”, “The New Yorker”, and “McSweeney’s”. Kevin Brockmeier’s story “Space” was selected for inclusion in “The Best American Short Stories”. Kevin Brockmeier’s work has also featured in “The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror”. He has won the Italo Calvino Short Fiction Award, the Nelson Algren Award (from “The Chicago Tribune), the O’Henry Award, a James Michener-Paul Engle Fellowship, the Porter Fund Award for Literary Excellence, and an NEA grant. “The Brief History of the Dead” is currently being made into a movie. Kevin Brockmeier graduated summa cum laude from the University of Iowa with an M.F.A. in fiction writing, and he has previously been a University of Arkansas Little Rock faculty member. Kevin Brockmeier lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.
The
Ceiling – Kevin Brockmeier’s acclaimed short story, winner of the 2002
O’Henry Award
A
Little Rock Handbook – Kevin Brockmeier’s short story about his hometown
The Green Children
– another Kevin Brockmeier short story
These Hands – an excerpt
from Kevin Brockmeier’s story
Some
Things about Kevin Brockmeier – Thisbe Nissen’s recollections of Kevin
Brockmeier
Turning
Inward – Mary McMyne’s interview with Kevin Brockmeier reveal that
“Brockmeier” means “Crumb-farmer” in German
Earthgoat
– their Kevin Brockmeier interview
Interview
with Kevin Brockmeier – from “The Times”
Hobart –
their interview with Kevin Brockmeier
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