Gabriel is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Connecticut. He then earned a doctorate in history from Stony Brook University. Gabriel went to college at Texas State University-San Marcos, earning a B.A. At age eight, he returned to the US and lived in Staten Island and Brooklyn before moving to Houston, Texas, when he was 12. He has also won awards for his short fiction, including the Nebula, Locus and British Fantasy Awards for the novella Ring Shout in 2021.ĭexter Gabriel was born in New York City in 1971, but spent most of his early years living in his parents' original home of Trinidad and Tobago. In 2022, his fantasy novel A Master of Djinn won the Nebula and Locus Awards. His pen name "Djèlí", makes reference to the griots – traditional Western African storytellers, historians and poets. He uses a pen name to differentiate his literary work from his academic work, and has also published under the name A. Dexter Gabriel (born 1971), better known by his pen name Phenderson Djèlí Clark, is an American speculative fiction writer and historian, who is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Connecticut.
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