Bryan Washington

Bryan Washington is the author of the story collection Lot, the bestselling novel Memorial, and the Lambda Award winner Family Meal. Hehas also won the National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award, a New Yok Public Library Young Lions Award, an Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, an International Dylan Thomas Prize, and an O. Henry Prize, and he was a finalist for the James Tait Black Prize, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, a PEN/Robert W. Bingham prize, and a National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. He is a columnist for the New York Times Magazine and his fiction has appeared in the New Yorker and The Best American Short Stories.