Tom Kealey is an American writer.

Biography

Kealey is the author of the story collection ''Thieves I've Known'', winner of the 2012

Flannery O'Connor Award The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction is an annual prize awarded by the University of Georgia Press named in honor of the American short story writer and novelist Flannery O'Connor. Established in 1983 to encourage young writers by brin ...

and named as one of NPR's 2013 Great Reads. He is also the author of ''The Creative Writing MFA Handbook''. His stories have appeared in The Rumpus, Best American NonRequired, Glimmer Train,

Story Quarterly ''StoryQuarterly'' is an American literary journal based at Rutgers University–Camden in Camden, New Jersey. It was founded in 1975 by Tom Bracken, F.R. Katz, Pamela Painter and Thalia Selz. Works originally published in ''StoryQuarterly'' hav ...

, and

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. Kealey is a Jones Lecturer at

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, where he was a Stegner Fellow from 2001 to 2003. He received his MFA in creative writing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2001.

Bibliography

Thieves I've Known
(2013), story collection from the University of Georgia Press, 2013
The Creative Writing MFA Handbook
(Continuum Publishing, February 2006).

Other publications and awards

"Arrowhead"
online story written with Chris Baty. * "Nobody" at The Rumpus
"826 Valencia Days"
* ''Coyotes'' (manuscript) won the 2005 Joseph Henry Jackson Award from the San Francisco Foundation. {{DEFAULTSORT:Kealey, Tom American male short story writers Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Stanford University faculty Stegner Fellows 21st-century American short story writers 21st-century American male writers University of Massachusetts Amherst MFA Program for Poets & Writers alumni