Jerry Gabriel's first book of fiction, Drowned Boy, was chosen by Andrea Barrett to win the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, and was published in January 2010 by Sarabande Books. It was as a Barnes and Noble "Discover Great New Writers" Selection and winner of the Towson Prize for Literature. His short fiction has appeared in One Story, Five Chapters, EPOCH, Big Fiction, Alaska Quarterly Review, and The Missouri Review, among many other magazines. Mr. Gabriel holds degrees from The Ohio State University, Northern Arizona University, and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Currently, he lives in Maryland, where he teaches at St. Mary's College of Maryland and directs the Chesapeake Writers' Conference. Prior to that he was a lecturer in Cornell University's Engineering Communications Program, where he also taught creative writing through Cornell at Auburn, a university program for prisoners at New York's Auburn Correctional Facility.jerrygabriel.net