Gabe Hudson likes to call his writing as an opportunity for one to get to a state he describes as Leath. A few weeks after moving to New York, he had a manuscript and a few weeks later an offer on the table from Knopf. While he never intended to get into a writing career after leaving Brown University, he still kept in touch with one of McSweeney’s editors, Dave Eggers who encouraged him to publish something. He applied to Brown University, an artistic school because he believed that it would be the best fit for his subversive and rebellious nature. After leaving the Marines, he would publish in some journals before applying to MFA programs. Nonetheless, he had read Cormac MacCarthy’s “Blood Meridian” a lot in his childhood and was intrigued by its philosophical underpinnings that advocated following your heart. With a life that had little of pop culture or television, Gabe Hudson joined the Marines when he was 18 as an act of rebellion against his strict upbringing.
student at the University of Texas before he started working for the Chamber of Commerce, would read Moby Dick or Wallace to him for hours every night before he went to sleep. He grew up in a very artistic household and spent much of his childhood playing the violin.
He would go to the University of Texas before he joined the United States Marine Reserves, before proceeding to Brown University for his MFA. Hudson was born and grew up in Austin Texas. He also won Brown University’s John Hawkes Prize in Fiction, and the University of Texas at Austin Adele Steiner Burleson Prize. For his writing prowess, Gabe Hudson was the recipient of Princeton University’s Hodder Fellowship, as well as being honored as one of Granta’s 20 Best of Young American novelists. He has also written a fantasy fiction novel that made Buzzfeed’s 22 Exciting Books You Need to Read This Summer and Google Play’s Summer Reading list. The title also won the Hemingway/PEN Award, and was on GQ’s 10 Best Books of the Year. The anthology won the Sue Kaufman Award for best first work from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
President” his anthology has been highly successful being translated into over seven languages. Prior to moving to South Korea, he was a professor at Princeton University’s Creative Writing Program between the years 2004 to 2007. He lives in Seoul, South Korea where he teaches creative writing and chairs Underwood International College of Yonsei University’s Creative Writing Program. His first work was the critically acclaimed anthology of eight stories “Dear Mr. Gabe Hudson is an American writer best known for writing fiction, fantasy, and young adult novels.
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