Geoffrey Becker (born 1959) is an American

short story A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest ...

writer, and

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to ...

Life

He teaches at

Towson University Towson University (TU or Towson) is a public university in Towson, Maryland. Founded in 1866 as Maryland's first training school for teachers, Towson University is a part of the University System of Maryland. Since its founding, the university h ...

. Graduated from

Colby College Colby College is a private liberal arts college in Waterville, Maine. It was founded in 1813 as the Maine Literary and Theological Institution, then renamed Waterville College after the city where it resides. The donations of Christian philanthr ...

in 1980. His work appeared in ''Antioch Review'', ''Colorado Review'', ''Crazyhorse'', ''Crescent Review'', ''failbetter.com'', ''Florida Review'', ''Gettysburg Review'', ''Kansas Quarterly'', ''North American Review'', ''Ploughshares'', ''Prairie Schooner'', ''Quarterly West'', ''Roanoke Review'', ''Sonora Review'', ''The Cincinnati Review'', ''West Branch''. He lives in

Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore ( , locally: or ) is the List of municipalities in Maryland, most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland, fourth most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, and List of United States cities by popula ...

Awards

* 1995

Drue Heinz Literature Prize The Drue Heinz Literature Prize is a major American literary award for short fiction in the English language. This prize of the University of Pittsburgh Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States was initiated in 1981 by Drue Heinz and dev ...

for ''Dangerous Men'' * Nelson Algren Award, for ''Bluestown'' * NEA fellowship,

Works

Short stories

Novels

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Anthologies

* * The Best American Short Stories (Houghton Mifflin, 2000) “Black Elvis” * *

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Becker, Geoffrey 1959 births Living people American short story writers Colby College alumni Towson University faculty American male short story writers