Stuart Dybek has published three short story collections Childhood and Other Neighborhoods, The Coast of Chicago and I Sailed With Magellan, and two volumes of poetry Brass Knuckles and Streets in their Own Ink. His work is frequently anthologized and regularly appears in magazines such as The New Yorker,The Atlantic, Harper’s, DoubleTake, Ploughshares and The Paris Review.
Stuart Dybek’s many honors include the PEN/Bernard Malamud Prize, a Lannan Award, the Academy Institute Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, a Whiting Writer’s Award and four O’Henry Prizes.
Previous winners of the Rea Award for the Short Story are:
| Cynthia Ozick (1986) |
Gina Berriault (1997) |
| Robert Coover (1987) |
John Edgar Wideman (1998) |
| Donald Barthelme (1988) |
Joy Williams (1999) |
| Tobias Wolff (1989) |
Deborah Eisenberg (2000) |
| Joyce Carol Oates (1990) |
Alice Munro (2001) |
| Paul Bowles (1991) |
Mavis Gallant (2002) |
| Eudora Welty (1992) |
Antonya Nelson (2003) |
| Grace Paley (1993) |
Lorrie Moore (2004) |
| Tillie Olsen (1994) |
Ann Beattie (2005) |
| Richard Ford (1995) |
John Updike (2006) |
| Andre Dubus (1996) |
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In addition to the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Dungannon Foundation also sponsors the Rea Visiting Writers and Rea Visiting Lecturers programs at the University of Virginia and Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story at Symphony Space in New York City. |
