Corey Sobel’s debut novel, The Redshirt, was published by the New Poetry & Prose Series at the University Press of Kentucky in October 2020; the paperback was released in March 2024. The Redshirt was a finalist for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and the winner of the Independent Publisher Gold Medal for LGBT+ Fiction. It was also selected as one of NPR’s Favorite Books of 2020.

Sobel’s short fiction has been published The Columbia Review. His non-fiction has been published by or is forthcoming from Esquire, Literary Hub, and The Rumpus. He previously edited the column “Music for Desks” at Epiphany Magazine.

Sobel was born in Colorado and spent his childhood moving around the United States with his family of seven. He attended Duke University on a football scholarship and has since researched HIV/AIDS in North Carolina and Kenya, documented wartime human rights abuses on the border of Burma and Thailand, and served as a researcher for international development organizations around the world.

He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and their dog and cat.

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