Amina Gautier at Creighton

Amina Gautier is the author of four award-winning short story collections: At-Risk, Now We Will Be Happy, The Loss of All Lost Things, and The Best That You Can Do. More than one hundred of her stories have been published, appearing in AGNI, American Short Fiction, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, Latino Book Review, Los Angeles Review, Southern Review, and TriQuarterly among other places.

She is the recipient of the Blackwell Prize, the Chicago Public Library Foundation’s 21st Century Award, the International Latino Book Award, the Mellon-Flamboyan Foundation Letras Boricuas Fellowship, and the PEN/MALAMUD Award for Excellence in the Short Story. Notably, Gautier was the first Black woman author to win the PEN/Malamud Award. Other winners include luminaries Edwidge Danticat, Jhumpa Lahiri, George Saunders, Saul Bellow, and John Updike.

In stories that captivate readers and critics alike, Dr. Gautier complicates and illuminates the intersection of self and place, with characters who navigate the pitfalls and pleasures of claiming a complex identity in a world that insists on simple answers. Dr. Gautier often explores her Afro- Puerto-Rican heritage on the page.

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