Assistant Professor
2014, B.F.A Writing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2017, M.F.A. Fiction, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Bio
Gabriel Bump grew up in South Shore, Chicago. He received his MFA in fiction from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His debut novel, Everywhere You Don’t Belong, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2020 and has 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. He loves baseball, basketball, birds, and long strolls.
Publications:
- Everywhere You Don’t Belong (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2020)
- “To Buffalo Eastward” (McSweeney’s Issue 59, 2020; The Best American Short Stories 2021)
- “‘Love Made You Black’: Gazes of Desire and Despair in a New Novel” (The New York Times, 2021)
- “In Contemporary Trinidad, a Widow Rediscovers the Meaning of Home” (The New York Times, 2020)
- “Every Work of American Literature is About Race” (The New York Times, 2020)
Awards
- 2020 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence
- The New York Times Notable Book of 2020
- 2020 Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s First Novelist Award
- 2020 Heartland Booksellers Award for Fiction
- 2020 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for Fiction
- 2016 Deborah Slosberg Memorial Award in Fiction
- 2016 Research Enhancement and Leadership Fellowship
- 2014 First-Year Fellowship
- 2012-14 Distinguished Merit Scholarship
Courses Taught:
(ENG 130) Introduction to Fiction
(ENG 307) Stylistics: Writing the Antihero