Amina Gautier is the award-winning author of the short story collections At-Risk (2011), Now We Will Be Happy (2014), The Loss of All Lost Things (2016), and The Best That You Can Do (2024). She has received the Blackwell Prize, the Chicago Public Library Foundation’s 21st Century Award, the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction,International Latino Book Awards,the Kimbilio-Soft Skull Publishing Prize in Fiction,the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story,the Prairie Schooner Book Prize, and the Phillis Wheatley award, among others. A recipient of fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society, the Camargo Foundation, the Chateau de Lavigny, Flamboyan Foundation, Fondazione Bogliasco, Le Maison Dora Maar, the MacDowell Colony, the Mellon Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, she teaches at the University of Miami. She’ll be appearing as part of the Florida Book Awards fiction and poetry winners panel at this year’s Word of South.
Amina Gautier
