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Gabriel Bump

Gabriel Bump

About the Author

Gabriel Bump grew up in South Shore, Chicago. His debut novel, Everywhere You Don’t Belong, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2020 and won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for Fiction, the Heartland Booksellers Award for Fiction, and the Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s First Novelist Award. His second novel, The New Naturals, was a Washington PostBoston Globe, and New York Times Notable Book of 2023. Bump's writing has appeared in The New York TimesThe Washington PostBest American Short Stories, and elsewhere. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts in the MFA Program for Poets and Writers.

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