| Kevin John Brockmeier | |
| Birth Date: | December 6, 1972 |
| Birth Place: | Hialeah, Florida, U.S. |
| Occupation: | Author |
| Education: | Parkview Arts and Science Magnet High School Southwest Missouri State University Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA) |
| Notable Works: | Things That Fall from the Sky The View From The Seventh Layer The Brief History of the Dead |
Kevin John Brockmeier (born December 6, 1972)[1] is an American writer of fantasy and literary fiction. His best known work is The Brief History of the Dead, 2006.
Brockmeier was born in Hialeah, Florida and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas.[2] He is a graduate of Parkview Arts and Science Magnet High School (1991) and Southwest Missouri State University (1995). He taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he received his MFA in 1997, and lives in Little Rock.
His short stories have been printed in numerous publications and he has published two collections of stories, two children's novels, and two fantasy novels.
Brockmeier has won three O. Henry Prizes, the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction, Italo Calvino Short Fiction Award, the Booker Worthen Literary Prize, and the Porter Fund Literary Prize.[3]
For more information on individual stories, see Things That Fall from the Sky
Featuring stories by: Stephen King, Peter S. Beagle, Laura Kasischke, Jeffrey Ford, Lisa Goldstein, Paul Tremblay, Will Clarke, Thomas Glave, John Kessel, Kellie Wells, Ryan Boudinot, Rebecca Makkai, Martin Cozza, Chris Gavaler, Deborah Scwartzand, Shawn Vestal, and Katie Williams.[4]