Gabriel Bump author biography, plus links to books by Gabriel Bump.

Gabriel Bump

Gabriel Bump grew up in South Shore, Chicago. His debut novel, Everywhere You Don't Belong, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2020 and won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for Fiction, the Heartland Booksellers Award for Fiction, and the Black Caucus of the American Library Association's First Novelist Award. His second novel, The New Naturals, was a Washington Post, Boston Globe, and New York Times Notable Book of 2023. Bump's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts in the MFA Program for Poets and Writers.

This biography was last updated on 11/10/2026.

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