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In these wondrously strange and revealing stories, Tom Kealey chronicles the struggles and triumphs of the young and marginalized as they discover many ways of growing up.
Thieves I've Known is a collection of powerful, moving stories about the lives of a redemptive and peculiar cast of young characters who become easy to know and difficult to forget.
About the author
TOM KEALEY is the author of
Thieves I've Known, which received the 2012 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. He is also the author of
The Creative Writing MFA Handbook. His stories have appeared in
Best American Nonrequired Reading,
Glimmer Train,
Story Quarterly,
Prairie Schooner, and the
San Francisco Chronicle. His nonfiction has appeared in
Poets and Writers and
The Writer. He received his MFA in creative writing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he received the Distinguished Teaching Award. Tom is a former Stegner Fellow and
has taught creative writing at Stanford University since 2003.
Summary
Ranging in place from Puget Sound, Washington, to Pamlico Sound, North Carolina, Thieves I’ve Known is a collection of powerful, moving stories about the lives of a redemptive and peculiar cast of young characters—abandoned yet courageous teenagers living on the edges of society—who become easy to know and difficult to forget.
