Kevin Brockmeier

Kevin John Brockmeier (born December 6, 1972) is an American writer of fantasy and literary fiction. His best known work is the 2006 novel The Brief History of the Dead.

Brockmeier was born in Hialeah, Florida, and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. He is a graduate of Parkview Arts and Science Magnet High School (1991) and Southwest Missouri State University (1995). He taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he received his MFA in 1997, and lives in Little Rock.

His short stories have been printed in numerous publications and he has published two collections of stories, two children's novels, and two fantasy novels.

Brockmeier has won three O. Henry Prizes, the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction, Italo Calvino Short Fiction Award, the Booker Worthen Literary Prize, and the Porter Fund Literary Prize.

For more information on individual stories, see Things That Fall from the Sky