Stuart Dybek’s most recent book of poems is Streets in Their Own Ink (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). His fiction includes Childhood and Other Neighborhoods, The Coast of Chicago, and I Sailed with Magellan, a novel-in-stories. Dybek’s work has won numerous awards, among them a Lannan Prize, a PEN/Malamud Award, a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship, a Rea Award for the Short Story, and numerous O. Henry Prizes. His work has also appeared in both The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Poetry.
