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Kevin Brockmeier


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Kevin Brockmeier is the author of The Truth About Celia and a children's book, City of Names. He has published stories in The Georgia Review, The Carolina Quarterly, and McSweeney's, and his story "Space" from Things That Fall from the Sky has been selected for The Best American Short Stories. He has received the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award, an Italo Calvino Short Fiction Award, a James Michener-Paul Engle Fellowship, two O'Henry Awards (one, a first prize), and most recently, a NEA grant. He lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.
 


Genres: Horror, Fantasy
 
Novels
   City of Names (2002)
   The Truth about Celia (2003)
   The Brief History of the Dead (2006)
   Grooves (2006)
   The Illumination (2011)
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Books containing stories by Kevin Brockmeier
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Tiny Nightmares (2020)
Very Short Stories of Horror
edited by
Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto
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Astoria to Zion (2014)
Twenty-six Stories of Risk and Abandon from Ecotone's First Decade
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012 (2012)
(Best American Nonrequired Reading)
edited by
Dave Eggers

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Awards
2007 Granta Best of Young American Novelists

Award nominations
2007 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : The Brief History of the Dead
2003 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : The Brief History of the Dead


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Metallic Realms (2025)
Lincoln Michel
"Metallic Realms accomplishes in prose what the classic silent comedians accomplished on film, turning the trips and missteps of a born fumbler into acrobatics: Nothing goes well, butperfectly. Delightful to behold."
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The Naming Song (2024)
Jedediah Berry
"With The Naming Song, Jedediah Berry offers a Genesis wrapped up in a Revelation-a mysterious, poetic, and invigorating post-apocalyptic adventure saga about how things can be reborn, and in some cases remade, after they have been undone. It's rare that a novel this substantial is also this strange and this fun."
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Sacrificial Animals (2024)
Kailee Pedersen
"Sacrificial Animals is distinctly observant, and distinctly unsettling. It begins with one sort of menace and ends with another entirely, so that while the book barely leaves its little patch of acres, and the souls who occupy it hardly move an inch from the traumas that shaped them long ago, it leaves you with a feeling of immense distances traveled."

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