Dennard Dayle

Dennard Dayle is a Jamaican American author who lives in Brooklyn, New York. A graduate of Princeton University, he also earned his MFA from Columbia University.

Dayle’s short fiction has been featured in several prominent publications, including:

• The New Yorker
• McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
• Clarkesworld
• Matchbook
• The Hard Times

He is the author of the short story collection Everything Abridged. Before transitioning to a full-time career in fiction and mischief, Dayle worked as an advertising copywriter and performed stand-up comedy.

Currently, he teaches as an adjunct professor at Columbia University and has recently taken up skateboarding (Photo Credit: Johnny Tang).