Bryan Washington

Bryan Washington (born 1993) is an American writer, who published his debut short story collection, Lot, in 2019.[1]

Bryan Washington
Born1993
Kentucky, U.S.
Occupation
  • Writer
  • scholar
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Houston,
University of New Orleans
Notable awardsDylan Thomas Prize (2020)
Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence (2019)

Early life and education

Washington was born in Kentucky, and raised in Houston, Texas.[2] Washington graduated from the University of Houston with a BA, and continued his education at the University of New Orleans where he graduated with an MFA.[3]

Career

Lot, a series of interconnected short stories set in Houston, was published in 2019 by Riverhead.[4] The book centers in part on Nicolás, a young man of mixed African American and Latino American descent who works in his family's restaurant while coming to terms with his sexuality.[5] The book was the winner of the 2019 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence,[6] the 2020 Dylan Thomas Prize,[7] and the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction.[8] Washington's first novel, Memorial, is slated for publication in 2020.[9]

Washington lectures in English at Rice University, where in July 2020 he was made George Guion Williams Writer in Residence and Scholar in Residence for Racial Justice.

Bibliography

Books

  • Lot (2019, Riverhead)

Fiction and essays
  • Washington, Bryan (August 3, 2020). "Heirlooms". Fiction. The New Yorker.
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References
  1. Luis Alberto Urria, "In Bryan Washington’s ‘Lot,’ Stories Reveal Houston’s Hidden Borders". The New York Times, May 14, 2019.
  2. Richard Lea, "Bryan Washington: 'Many authors haven't met poor people and that’s very clear in their writing'". The Guardian, August 18, 2019.
  3. https://english.rice.edu/faculty/bryan-washington
  4. https://english.rice.edu/faculty/bryan-washington
  5. Colin Grant, "Lot by Bryan Washington review – tough but tender stories". The Guardian, August 7, 2019.
  6. Johnson, Chevel (January 30, 2020). "Houston writer Bryan Washington to receive Gaines Award". Associated Press. Retrieved February 26, 2020.
  7. Alison Flood, "Bryan Washington's 'kickass' short stories win £30,000 Dylan Thomas prize". The Guardian, May 14, 2020.
  8. Erin Vanderhoof, "The Winners of the 32nd Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Vanity Fair, June 1, 2020.
  9. David Canfield, "Bryan Washington on why he's calling his debut novel a 'gay slacker dramedy'". Entertainment Weekly, February 14, 2020.


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