St. Rita Alum, Dybek, receives Genius Grant. Writer Stuart Dybek, author of the acclaimed short story collection The Coast of Chicago, has won a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant." Dybek, a writer-in-residence at Northwestern University, is one of 24 MacArthur fellows for 2007. He has written three short story collections and two books of poetry. Much of his writing is set in Chicago.
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