# Tom Kealey

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**Tom Kealey** is an American writer, the author of the story collection *Thieves I've Known*, winner of the 2012 [Flannery O'Connor Award](/source/Flannery_O'Connor_Award) and named as one of NPR's 2013 Great Reads. He is also the author of *The Creative Writing MFA Handbook*. His stories have appeared in The Rumpus, Best American NonRequired, [Glimmer Train](/source/Glimmer_Train), [Story Quarterly](/source/Story_Quarterly), and [Poets and Writers](/source/Poets_and_Writers).

Kealey is a Jones Lecturer at [Stanford University](/source/Stanford_University), where he was a Stegner Fellow from 2001 to 2003. He received his MFA in creative writing from the [University of Massachusetts Amherst](/source/University_of_Massachusetts_Amherst), where he was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2001.

## Bibliography

- [Thieves I've Known](http://tom-kealey.com/) (2013), a story collection from the University of Georgia Press, 2013
- [The Creative Writing MFA Handbook](https://creative-writing-mfa-handbook.blogspot.com/) (Continuum Publishing, February 2006).

### Other publications and awards

- ["Arrowhead"](http://ensemble.stanford.edu/arrowhead), online story written with Chris Baty.
- "Nobody" at The Rumpus
- ["826 Valencia Days"](http://therumpus.net/2013/09/826-valencia-days/)
- *Coyotes* (manuscript) won the 2005 Joseph Henry Jackson Award from the San Francisco Foundation.

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