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Grady Chambers

Biography

Grady Chambers

Grady Chambers is the author of the poetry collection NORTH AMERICAN STADIUMS (Milkweed Editions, 2018), winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. Grady was born and raised on the north side of Chicago, and lives in Philadelphia. His writing can be found in The Atlantic, The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, The Sun and many other publications. Grady is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and received his MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University

Grady Chambers

Books by Grady Chambers

Great Disasters
by Grady Chambers - Fiction

In the early 2000s in Chicago, six young men start high school. Though they’ve been friends since boyhood, their high school years set them on new paths: The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan begin, along with the protests against them; Ryan falls in love but struggles to hold onto it; and he and the others learn to lose themselves in alcohol. With each passing year --- as they enter college or the military, then the world beyond; form new relationships with partners and children; and navigate shifting loyalties to a changing country --- the narrator feels the group breaking further apart and finds himself asking: What does it mean to move forward, both with and without one another?