Gregory Hrbek

A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Greg Hrbek has received a James Michener Fellowship from the Michener-Copernicus Society, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, and a Creative Artists' Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts' Japan-US Friendship Commission. He has written two novels The Hindenburg Crashes Nightly and Not on Fire, but Burning, and a collection of stories, Destroy All Monsters. His short fiction has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, Tin House, and numerous literary journals, and in The Best American Short Stories anthology. He is the recipient of the James Jones First Novel Award and the Prairie Schooner Prize in Fiction, and was a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction. He is Writer-in-Residence at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. In 2025, he received a Literature Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, and a Residency Award from the BAU Institute/Camargo Foundation in France.