Next Reader

Gabriel Bump

Welles-Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library

February 20, 2025, 5:00 PM

Gabriel Bump is the author of The New Naturals and Everywhere You Don’t Belong, which was named a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2020 and an Electric Lit Favorite Novel of 2020. Bump’s nonfiction and fiction have appeared in Slam magazine, the Huffington Post, Springhouse Journal, and other publications. He was awarded the 2016 Deborah Slosberg Memorial Award for Fiction. He received his MFA in fiction from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He grew up in South Shore, Chicago and now teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.