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. Archived from the original on 2010-04-21. Retrieved 2010-03-03.

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.