Kevin Brockmeier
Author of The Brief History of the Dead
About the Author
Kevin Brockmeier won an O. Henry Award in 2001 for "These Hands". He has published stories in the Georgia Review. The Carolina Quarterly, The Chicago Tribune (as a Nelson Algren award recipient) & Writing on the Edge (as an Italo Calvino Short Fiction Award Winner). He is a 1999-2000 recipient of a show more James Michener-Paul Engle Fellowship. Kevin lives in Little Rock, Arkansas where he teaches Creative Writing. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Kevin Brockmeier
Unstuck #3: New Literature of the Futuristic, the Fantastic, the Surreal, and the Strange (2014) 5 copies
The Year of Silence 2 copies
Andrea is Changing Her Name 1 copy
Apples [short story] 1 copy
These Hands 1 copy
Associated Works
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales (2010) — Contributor — 976 copies
Significant Objects: 100 Extraordinary Stories about Ordinary Things (2012) — Contributor — 57 copies
Selected Shorts: A Touch of Magic (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2009) — Contributor — 17 copies
Astoria to Zion: Twenty-Six Stories of Risk and Abandon from Ecotone's First Decade (2014) — Contributor — 13 copies
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- Birthdate
- 1972-12-06
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
- Places of residence
- Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
- Education
- Parkview Arts and Science Magnet High School (1991)
Southwest Missouri State University (1995)
Iowa's Writers Workshop - Occupations
- novelist
writer
author - Awards and honors
- Granta's Best Of Young American Novelists (2007)
O. Henry Award (2002)
Nelson Algren Award
Italo Calvino Short Fiction Award - Agent
- Jennifer Carlson
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The Brief History of the Dead (SPOILER ALERT) in Someone explain it to me... (January 2008)
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Statistics
- Works
- 26
- Also by
- 18
- Members
- 4,032
- Popularity
- #6,246
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 241
- ISBNs
- 68
- Languages
- 7
- Favorited
- 13
The story is strange - about a world where pain glows with light - and his characters are all troubled and riddled with pain. Their stories are loosely intertwined in a way that reminded me that the world is smaller than we think.
I wish I knew what happened to all these people after the book ended.