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    Stuart Dybek

    Born:1942 in City, Illinois
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    Stuart Dybek is the author of two books of poems, Brass Knuckles (Carnegie Mellon Press) and Streets in Their Own Ink (FSG.) A chap book of Dybek's prose poems and flash fiction was published by State Street Press, and he is also the author of three prize-winning short story collections: Childhood and Other Neighborhoods, The Coast of Chicago, and I Sailed with Magellan. Dybek's poetry has been widely anthologized, including work in Best American Poetry, and has been translated into French, Spanish, Japanese, Polish, and Czech. His poetry appears regularly in publications such as Poetry, APR, Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Gettysburg Review, The Missouri Review, Harvard Review,The Paris Review, etc. He is the recipient of many literary awards, which include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, a Lannan Award, and in 2007, a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Writer's Award. Dybek currently teaches at Northwestern University where he is Distinguished Writer in Residence. He is also a permanent faculty member of The Prague Summer Writing Program.

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    The way Stuart Dybek tells it, on the night that he decided to become a writer, the moon rose full and bright over Lake Michigan. It had not been an easy decision. His father, an immigrant from Poland who had pushed his way to foreman at the McCormick Works factory on Blue Island Avenue, wanted a doctor in the family. There was also the question of ability: Stuart’s test scores in high school had been so low that he had to take remedial English classes his freshman year at Loyola University. Writing for a living seemed like a romantic and misguided notion. And yet, encouraged by a professor to follow his instincts, Stuart told his father that he wanted to be writer. His father “had complicated feelings about this,” he said. They argued, and Dybek left the family house in Little Village and drove to Rogers Park and found a quiet spot on the lake alongside Loyola.

    “I sat there until 5 in the morning and just thought. The moon was enormous on the water, and, as the sun came up, I became convinced that was it: I was going to be a writer,” he said. “It was the closest thing I ever had to a revelation. I would probably end up homeless now, and I was making a terrible mistake, but I had to do it.”

    I’m not sure I believe this story.

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