George Choundas

George Choundas is a Cuban- and Greek-American, a former FBI agent, and a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in Prose. His forthcoming story collection, I Think I'll Stay Here Forever (Press 53), won the Press 53 Award for Short Fiction and was shortlisted for the Steel Toe Books Prize in Prose, the Hawk Mountain Short Story Collection Award, and the Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize. His essay collection, Until All You See Is Sky (EastOver Press 2023), was awarded the EastOver Prize for Nonfiction. His debut story collection, The Making Sense of Things (FC2 2018), won the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose, the St. Lawrence Book Award for Fiction, and the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction. He also won the New Millennium Award for Fiction for a story the award’s founding editor called among the best ever to win the prize. He is a former writer in residence at Hewnoaks and at the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow.