Bio
Stephen Narain was born in the Bahamas in 1986 to Guyanese parents and moved to the United States as a teenager. At the core, his work focuses on the constancies, changes, and contradictions of the Caribbean, both represented in its spaces, real and imagined, and experienced by its people, home and abroad. A graduate of Harvard University, he is currently a student in the M.F.A. Program at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he is at work on his first novel. His fiction and essays have been published in The Harvard Advocate, the Caribbean Review of Books, and Small Axe, which awarded him first place in its 2010 Literary Competition. A Dean’s Graduate Fellow at the University of Iowa, he is a recipient of a 2012 Soros Fellowship for New Americans.
