Stuart Dybek (born April 10, 1942) is an American writer of fiction and poetry.

Dybek, a second-generationPolish American,^[2] was born inChicago,Illinois and raised in Chicago'sLittle Village andPilsen neighborhoods in the 1950s and early 1960s. He graduated fromSt. Rita of Cascia High School in 1959 and earned anMFA from theIowa Writers' Workshop at theUniversity of Iowa. He has anMA in literature fromLoyola University Chicago.^[3]

Often compared toSaul Bellow andTheodore Dreiser for his unique portrayal of setting and landscapes, Dybek is "among the first writers of Polish descent (who write about the ethnic self) to receive national recognition."^[4]

After teaching for more than 30 years atWestern Michigan University, where he remains an adjunct professor of English and a member of the permanent faculty of the Prague Summer Program, Dybek became the Distinguished Writer in Residence atNorthwestern University where he teaches at theSchool of Professional Studies.

Dybek's two collections of poems areBrass Knuckles (1979) andStreets in Their Own Ink (2004). His fiction includesChildhood and Other Neighborhoods,The Coast of Chicago,I Sailed With Magellan, a novel-in-stories,Paper Lantern: Love Stories, andEcstatic Cahoots: Fifty Short Stories. His work has been anthologized and has appeared in magazines such asHarper's,The New Yorker,Atlantic Monthly,Poetry,Tin House,Ploughshares,The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction andTriQuarterly.

His collection,The Coast of Chicago, was selected as aNew York Times Notable Book and cited as anAmerican Library Association Notable Book of 2005. A story fromI Sailed With Magellan, titled "Breasts," appears in the 2004Best American Short Stories.

Dybek was a participant in the Michigan Writers Series atMichigan State University, where he read from his work.^[5]

Dybek's awards include aLannan Prize, aPEN/Malamud Award (1995), aWhiting Award (1985), aGuggenheim fellowship, and anO. Henry Award.^[6] Dybek was awarded aMacArthur Fellowship on September 25, 2007.^[7]

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• Childhood and Other Neighborhoods: Stories. Viking Adult. 1980.ISBN 978-0-67021-618-5.
• The Coast of Chicago: Stories. Knopf. 1990.ISBN 978-0-39457-449-3.
• I Sailed with Magellan. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2003.ISBN 978-0-37417-407-1.
• Ecstatic Cahoots: Fifty Short Stories. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 3 June 2014.ISBN 978-0-374-71055-2.
• Paper Lantern: Love Stories. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 3 June 2014.ISBN 978-0-374-14644-3.

• Brass Knuckles. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1979.ISBN 978-0-82293-399-1.
• Streets in Their Own Ink. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2004.ISBN 978-0-37427-095-7.

Pelligro

• "Prayer" | X-1 Experimental Fiction Project | The Smith: 1976 | 49-52
• Dybek, Stuart (Autumn 2009). "Seiche".Granta (108):39–46.
• "Vigil".The Atlantic. Fiction Issue. 2011.

• New York Times review ofCoast of Chicago
• Stuart Dybek interview at The Writing Disorder
• Stuart Dybek bio at Northwestern University
• Profile at The Whiting Foundation

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