Geoffrey Becker

Geoffrey Becker (born 1959) is an American short story writer, and novelist.

Life

He teaches at Towson University.[1] Graduated from Colby College in 1980.[2]

His work appeared in Antioch Review,[3] Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Crescent Review, failbetter.com, Florida Review, Gettysburg Review, Kansas Quarterly, North American Review, Ploughshares,[4] Prairie Schooner,[5] Quarterly West, Roanoke Review, Sonora Review, The Cincinnati Review, West Branch.

He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.[6]

Awards

• 1995 Drue Heinz Literature Prize for Dangerous Men
• Nelson Algren Award, for Bluestown
• National Endowment of the Arts fellowship
• Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction Prize
• Best American Short Stories[7]

Works

Short stories

• Dangerous Men. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1995. ISBN 978-0-8229-3899-6.

Novels

• Bluestown. St. Martins Press. 1996. ISBN 978-0-312-30456-0. Geoffrey Becker.
• Hot Springs. Tin House Books. 2010. ISBN 978-0-9820539-4-2.

Anthologies

• John Edgar Wideman, ed. (2003). 20: Drue Heinz Prize Anthology. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0-8229-5815-4.
• The Best American Short Stories (Houghton Mifflin, 2000) “Black Elvis”[7]
• Janice Eidus; John Kastan, eds. (1998). "Bluestown". It's Only Rock and Roll. Godine. p. 268. ISBN 978-1-56792-089-5. Geoffrey Becker.
• Dennis Trudell, ed. (1996). "El Diablo de la Cienega". Full Court. Breakaway Books. ISBN 978-1-891369-12-4.

References

1. "Baltimore Bookfestival 2016 :: INDEX.CFM". www.baltimorebookfestival.com. Retrieved 2016-04-11.
2. "Colby Magazine vol. 99, no. 1". Issuu. Retrieved 2016-04-11.
3. Kingsley, John Donald (2003-01-01). The Antioch Review. Antioch Review, Incorporated.
4. "Read By Author | Ploughshares". www.pshares.org. Retrieved 2016-04-11.
5. "Project MUSE - Login". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2022-02-28.
6. "Geoffrey Becker | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers". Poets & Writers. Retrieved 2016-04-11.
7. "Black Elvis, Black Elvis by Geoffrey Becker on Writing Atlas — Short Story Summary". writingatlas.com. Retrieved 2023-08-24.