Bryan Washington
Bryan Washington is an American writer, who published his debut short story collection, Lot, in 2019.Early life and education
Washington was born in Kentucky, and raised in Houston, Texas. Washington graduated from the University of Houston with a BA, and continued his education at the University of New Orleans where he graduated with an MFA.Career
Lot, a series of interconnected short stories set in Houston, was published in 2019 by Riverhead. The book centers in part on Nicolás, a young man of mixed African American and Latino American descent who works in his family's restaurant while coming to terms with his sexuality. The book was the winner of the 2019 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, the 2020 Dylan Thomas Prize, and the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction. Washington's first novel, Memorial, is slated for publication in 2020.
Washington lectures in English at Rice University, where in July 2020 he was made George Guion Williams Writer in Residence and Scholar in Residence for Racial Justice.
