2013, among other honors.
Now We Will Be Happy is a compilation of 11 stories presenting a muster of different and unique worlds through characters of Puerto Rican heritage.
Professor Gautier also received honors for her debut collection of short stories, At Risk (2011), which received the 2015 First Horizon Award and also won the 2010 Flannery O’Connor Award—the premier recognition for short stories. In 2016, Dr. Gautier will release her third book, The Loss of All Lost Things, already honored with the Elixir Press Award in Fiction. She has published more than eighty-five short stories and her works have received numerous accolades, from the Crazyhorse
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Prize to the Danahy Fiction Prize, the Jack Dyer Prize, the William Richey Prize, and the Lamar York Prize in Fiction.
A scholar of 19th-century American literature, Dr. Gautier is a New York native who spends her time between Chicago and Miami. She is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania, and her work has appeared in literary journals, including Antioch Review, Iowa Review and Southern Review.
August 18, 2015
