Edward Hamlin

Edward Hamlin’s NIGHT IN ERG CHEBBI was selected by Karen Russell as winner of the 2015 Iowa Short Fiction Award and went on to win the Colorado Book Award. Other honors have included a Nelson Algren Award, a Nelligan Prize, an NCW Short Story Prize, a Top of the Mountain Novel Prize and a Hawthornden Fellowship. Hamlin's work has been published widely and anthologized, as well as appearing on stage. His compositions for solo acoustic guitar have appeared on three CDs and on film. A New York native, Edward Hamlin spent his formative years in Chicago and now lives in the Colorado foothills.