Stuart Dybek

Biography

Stuart Dybek is the author of several collections of short fiction, including I Sailed with Magellan (FSG, 2003), and a collection of poems, Brass Knuckles. His stories appear frequently in the New Yorker, Harper’s, and the Atlantic Monthly, and in the O. Henry, Pushcart, and Best American Short Stories anthologies. His awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation, and he has received a PEN/Malamud Prize, a Lannan Award, and a Whiting Writers Award.

See Work

FICTION / Spring 2004

A Steamer Trunk

By Stuart Dybek

She asked me to go with her to pick out a trunk for her journey. It seemed to me like a strange request as, though neither of us had said it, we both knew that her leaving was the way we were breaking up. Even stranger was that I agreed to...

POETRY / Autumn 1980

The Estrangement of Luis Morone

By Stuart Dybek

Luis Morone
cuts adrift

sinks flies
flickers out

POETRY / Spring 1984

The Night Your Dress Lifted

By Stuart Dybek

There was a burst
of static
on radios
all over the city

POETRY / Spring 1984

Sleepers

By Stuart Dybek

A sleeper
purifies a room.