Tom Kealey is an American writer, the author of the story collection ''Thieves I've Known'', winner of the 2012 Flannery O'Connor Award 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, and Poets and Writers. 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 The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) is a public land-grant research university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system and was founded in 1863 as the ...

, where he was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2001.

Bibliography

Thieves I've Known
(2013), a 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