This week on The Maris Review, Maris talks with Jamel Brinkley about Witness, his new short story collection, out now from FSG.

Jamel Brinkley is the author of A Lucky Man: Stories, which won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the Story Prize, the John Leonard Prize, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. He was raised in the Bronx and in Brooklyn, New York, and currently teaches at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His new story collection is called Witness.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices