Desert Boys

Name: Desert Boys
ISBN: 9781250075505

by Chris McCormick

Stonewall Book · 2017 · Winner

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Soho PressNovember 8, 2016Literary FictionISBN 9781250075505

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Stonewall Book Award	2017	Winner	“Literature winner”

About This Book

Chris McCormick's linked story collection follows a gay young man growing up in the Mojave Desert town of Rancho Cucamonga across fifteen years. Winner of the Stonewall Book Award for Literature.

About the Author

Chris McCormickAmerican

Chris McCormick (born 1987) is an American novelist and short story writer raised in California's Mojave Desert Antelope Valley, son of an Armenian mother and American father.Chris McCormick author site, Bookreporter. He is the award-winning author of the novel The Gimmicks (Harper, 2020), a New York Times Editors' Choice, and the short story collection Desert Boys (Picador, 2016), winner of the 2017 Stonewall Book Award—Barbara Gittings Literature Award.National Endowment for the Arts. He holds degrees from UC Berkeley and the University of Michigan MFA program and teaches creative writing, with recent support from a 2024 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship.