Brian Broome Explained

Brian Broome (born 1969 or 1970)^[1] is an American memoirist, poet, and screenwriter from Ohio. He is best known for his award-winning memoir Punch Me Up to the Gods.

Education and career

Broome received his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Pittsburgh, where he also worked as a K. Leroy Irvis Fellow and an instructor in the Writing Program.^[2] His first full-length book, Punch Me Up to the Gods, was purchased by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt while he was still a student.^[3]

Broome currently writes for The Washington Post^[4] and is a Writer in Residence at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, California.^[5]

Awards

In 2021, Broome was named Pittsburgh's Person of the Year in the Literature category.^[6]

Year	Work	Award	Result	Ref.
2018	"Gravel"	Martin Luther King, Jr. Writing Award for College Prose	Winner	^[7]
2019	“In the Hypocrisy of the Opioid Epidemic, White Means Victim, Black Means Addict”	Vann Award for Online/Health-Science-Environment	Winner	^[8]
2020	"Garbage"	Cortada Short Film Festival's Audience Choice Award	Winner	^[9]
		Portland Short Fest	Semi-finalist
2021	Punch Me Up to the Gods	Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction	Winner	^[10] ^[11]
2022		Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award	Honor	^[12]
		Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir or Biography	Winner	^[13] ^[14]
		Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction	Winner	^[15]

External links

• Official website
• Brian Broome on the Kirkus Prize, Memoir, Creativity, Addiction, and Recovery, 1455 Author Series
• 1455 Summer Festival: A Conversation with Brian Broome and Deesha Philyaw

Notes and References

1. Web site: Jones . Susan . 2021-11-09 . Former Pitt instructor wins Kirkus Prize for memoir . 2022-06-17 . University Times . en.
2. Web site: Lion . Jolanta . 2020-11-20 . New Films Explore Racial Inequality in America . 2022-06-17 . Carnegie Mellon University . en.
3. Web site: 2021-06-15 . Student Brian Broome Sells Debut Memoir . 2022-06-17 . University of Pittsburgh . en.
4. News: Brian Broome . 2022-06-16 . The Washington Post.
5. Web site: Visiting Writers & Editors . 2022-06-17 . Saint Mary's College . en.
6. Web site: 2021-12-22 . Pittsburgh's People of the Year 2021: Literature . 2022-06-17 . Pittsburgh City Paper . en.
7. Web site: The 19th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Writing Awards - Department of English - Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Carnegie Mellon University . 2022-06-17 . Carnegie Mellon University . en . 2022-06-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220617034915/https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/english/mlk/2018/index.html . dead .
8. Web site: 2019-05-02 . Pittsburgh Media Group Announces 2019 Vann Winners . 2022-06-16 . Pittsburgh Black Media Federation.
9. Web site: Brian Broome . 2022-06-16 . University of Queensland Press.
10. Web site: Liebetrau . Eric . September 13, 2021 . Meet the 2021 Kirkus Prize Nonfiction Finalists . 2021-10-16 . Kirkus Reviews.
11. Web site: 2021 Winners . 2021-12-21 . Kirkus Reviews . en.
12. Web site: Chapman . Monica . 2022-02-01 . 2022 Barbara Gittings Literature Award and Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award of the Stonewall Book Awards announced . 2022-06-16 . News and Press Center . en.
13. Web site: Schaub . Michael . 2022-06-13 . Lambda Literary Award Winners Are Revealed . 2022-06-15 . Kirkus Reviews . en.
14. Web site: Segal . Corinne . 2022-06-13 . Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Lambda Literary Awards! . 2022-06-15 . Literary Hub . en-US.
15. Web site: 2022-05-11 . Here Are the Winners of the 2022 Publishing Triangle Awards . 2022-06-17 . The Publishing Triangle . en-US.