New Book Release by Jerry Gabriel

Associate Professor of English Jerry Gabriel’s first novel, "Deserters," has just been published (Acre Books, 2026) and is available for purchase from the University of Chicago Press, Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and Bookshop. Gabriel is the author of two collections of stories, "The Let Go" (Queen's Ferry Press, 2015) and "Drowned Boy" (Sarabande, 2010), which won the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, was a Barnes and Noble "Discover Great New Writers" pick and was awarded the 2011 Towson Prize for Literature. His stories have appeared in "One Story," "Epoch," "Fiction," The Missouri Review," and "Alaska Quarterly Review," among other publications. He has received grants and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts (2004), the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference (2011), and the National Endowment for the Arts (2016). At St. Mary's College, he teaches writing, is project director for "SlackWater: A Journal of Environmental and Cultural Change in Southern Maryland," and former director of the Chesapeake Writers' Conference.