Jamel Brinkley was raised in Brooklyn and the Bronx, New York. He is a Kimbilio Fellow and is an alum of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop. He has been awarded scholarships from the
Napa Valley Writers' Conference, the Tin House Writers' Workshop, and the Bread Loaf Writers's
Conference. He graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, was a Provost's Visiting Writer at the
University of Iowa, and is currently the Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. His short stories have appeared in A Public Space, and his debut collection is forthcoming in 2018 from Graywolf Press.