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Chris McCormick

Chris McCormick
Chris McCormick is the author of The Gimmicks (Harper, 2020), a New York Times Editors' Choice, and a short story collection, Desert Boys, winner of the 2017 Stonewall Book Award—Barbara Gittings Literature Award. His essays and stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, The Southern Review, and other publications. The son of an Armenian mother and an American father, he grew up on the California side of the Mojave Desert before earning his MFA at the University of Michigan. He is Associate Professor in the creative writing program at Minnesota State University, Mankato.


Countries Real and Imagined: Chris McCormick on Creating His Own Armenia

“I was not—and had never been—the only one comparing imagination to reality.”
March 6, 2023  By Chris McCormick
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