Geoffrey Becker is an American short story writer, and novelist.
Early life and education Geoffrey Becker graduated from Colby College in 1980.
Career Becker teaches at Towson University.
Writing 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.
Awards National Endowment of the Arts fellowship 1989: Nelson Algren Award, for Bluestown 1995 Drue Heinz Literature Prize for Dangerous Men 2000: "Black Elvis" published in The Best American Short Stories 2000 2009: Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, for "Black Elvis"
Selected works Short stories
Novels
Anthologies
"Black Elvis", included in The Best American Short Stories (Houghton Mifflin, 2000)
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