A Master of Djinn (novel), Tordotcom, 2021.The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (novella), Tor.com, 2019.'The Angel of Khan el-Khalili' (short story), Clockwork Cairo: Steampunk Tales of Egypt, ed.'A Dead Djinn in Cairo' (novelette), Tor.com, 2016.Partial bibliography Dead Djinn Universe They are collectively titled the Ministry of Alchemy series or the Dead Djinn Universe. Four of his works – 'A Dead Djinn in Cairo', 'The Angel of Khan el-Khalili', The Haunting of Tram Car 015 and A Master of Djinn – are set in the same world, an alternate-universe Egypt. Since then, he has published novellas, short stories, and a novel. In 2016, Clark sold his first major work, a novelette titled 'A Dead Djinn in Cairo', to Tor.com.

He chose to use a pen name in order to separate his academic and literary work. Phenderson was his grandfather's name, while Clark was his mother's maiden name Djèlí refers to West African storytellers, known in French as griots. In 2011, Gabriel began publishing short stories variously as P. 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.

A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark