![]() ![]() And he lives in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood, formerly home of both Michelle Obama and Kanye West. ![]() He faces all the usual hurdles of growing up, with the additional challenge of being black. When he’s not writing or reading, Gabriel enjoys playing video games and starting, sometimes finishing, long boring history books.Ībout the book: Abandoned by his parents and raised by a strong-willed grandmother and her live-in friend, Claude McKay Love just wants to have friends and fit in at school or on the playground. He currently lives in Buffalo, New York, where he teaches at Just Buffalo Literary Center and University at Buffalo. He received his MFA in fiction from the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. He was awarded the 2016 Deborah Slosberg Memorial Award for Fiction and the 2015 Summer Literary Seminars Montreal Flash Fiction Prize. His second novel is forthcoming, also from Algonquin. Everywhere You Don’t Belong (Algonquin 2020) is his first novel. Gabriel Bump grew up in South Shore, Chicago. His work has appeared in: McSweeney’s, Guernica, Electric Literature, SLAM, and elsewhere. ![]()
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