Tom Kealey

Personal bio
Tom Kealey is the author of Thieves I’ve Known and The Creative Writing MFA Handbook. His awards include the Flanner O’Connor Prize and the Joseph Henry Jackson Award, and his stories have appeared in Glimmer Train, Story Quarterly, Best American NonRequired, Alaska Quarterly Review, Indiana Review and many other places. At Stanford, he’s taught a wide variety of courses including Novel Writing Intensive, the Graphic Novel, Fiction Into Film, Creative Expressions, The Secret Lives of the Short Story, and First Chapters. Along with Directors Eavan Boland and John L’Heureux he designed the Levinthal Tutorials, a unique one-on-one mentoring program between Stegner Fellows and Stanford Undergraduates. Tom guided the Levinthal Program from its inception in 2003 to 2023. And of course Tom was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford Creative Writing from 2001-2003. He continues to enjoy his Stanford experience. Tom received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he received the Distinguished Teaching Award.

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