Geoffrey Becker

Geoffrey Becker is an American short story writer, and novelist.

Geoffrey Becker Graduated from Colby College in 1980.¹

Becker teaches at Towson University.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.

• National Endowment of the Arts fellowship
• 1989: Nelson Algren Award, for Bluestown⁶⁷
• 1995 Drue Heinz Literature Prize for Dangerous Men
• 2000: "Black Elvis" published in The Best American Short Stories 2000⁸
• 2009: Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, for "Black Elvis"

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

• 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 April 21, 2010. Retrieved March 3, 2010.

• John Edgar Wideman, ed. (2003). 20: Drue Heinz Prize Anthology. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0-8229-5815-4.
• "Black Elvis", included in The Best American Short Stories (Houghton Mifflin, 2000)⁸
• 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.