Jamel Brinkley is the winner of the fourth annual Maya Angelou Book Award (MABA) for Witness: Stories. He was named Thursday evening, November 21, during the Writers for Readers literary event co-sponsored by the Kansas City Public Library (KCPL) and the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s MFA Program in Creative Writing.

Witness: Stories (Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Macmillan, August 1, 2023) is a short story collection set in New York City that follows narratives of actions taken and not taken. Brinkley grew up in the Bronx and Brooklyn and currently teaches at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

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