Geoffrey Becker

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

Life
He teaches at Towson University. Graduated from Colby College 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.

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

Anthologies

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