William Henry Lewis is the author of two collections of stories,
In the Arms of Our Elders (Carolina Wren Press), and
I Got Somebody in Staunton (Amistad/HarperCollins), which was recognized as a Fiction Honor Book by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, listed among Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2005, and was a finalist for the PEN Faulkner Prize for Fiction. It was also selected as the city of Richmond’s Go Read book for 2006. Lewis’s work has received prizes from the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation and the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and has appeared in many journals, including Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Callaloo, and Blackbird, and reprinted in several anthologies, including Best American Short Stories (1996). Lewis currently teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program at the University of Maryland. In addition to his work as an educator, he has worked as a laborer, journeyman, dishwasher, museum security guard, delivery truck driver, record store clerk, jazz disc jockey and a coach for the Bahamas National Soccer Teams.

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William Henry Lewis

William Henry Lewis is the author of two collections of stories, In the Arms of Our Elders (Carolina Wren Press), and I Got Somebody in Staunton (Amistad/HarperCollins), which was recognized as a Fiction Honor Book by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, listed among Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2005, and was a finalist for the PEN Faulkner Prize for Fiction. It was also selected as the city of Richmond's Go Read book for 2006. Lewis's work has received prizes from the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation and the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and has appeared in many journals, including Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Callaloo, and Blackbird, and reprinted in several anthologies, including Best American Short Stories (1996). Lewis currently teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program at the University of Maryland. In addition to his work as an educator, he has worked as a laborer, journeyman, dishwasher, museum security guard, delivery truck driver, record store clerk, jazz disc jockey and a coach for the Bahamas National Soccer Teams.

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