Amina Gautier
Fiction
Miami, FL
Amina Gautier (she/her/ella) is the author of four award-winning short story collections: The Best That You Can Do (2024), which won the Soft Skull-Kimbilio Publishing Prize, three International Latino Book Awards, the Midwest MLA Award, a Florida Book Award Silver Medal, a Silver Medal “IPPY” Award for Short Story Fiction, Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year Award Honorable Mention, and was a Finalist for the Housatonic Book Award, the Big Other Book Award, and was Longlisted for The Joyce Carol Oates Prize and Longlisted for The Story Prize; The Loss of All Lost Things (2016), which won the Elixir Press Award in Fiction, The Phillis Wheatley Award, The International Latino Book Award, The National Indie Excellence Award, a Silver Medal “IPPY” Award in Northeast Fiction, and was a Finalist for the Paterson Prize, The John Gardner Award, The Hurston/Wright Award, and shortlisted for the William Saroyan Award, and The St. Francis College Literary Prize; Now We Will Be Happy (2014), which won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize, the International Latino Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Legacy Award, a Silver IPPY Award in Multicultural Fiction, a Florida Authors and Publishers Association Award Gold Medal in Short Fiction, and was Longlisted for The Chautauqua Prize in Fiction; and At-Risk (2011), which won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and received an Eric Hoffer Legacy Award and a First Horizon Award. For her body of work, Gautier has received the Blackwell Prize, the Chicago Public Library Foundation’s 21st Century Award, and the Pen/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story.
Gautier has published more than one hundred and fifty short stories. Her fiction appears in American Short Fiction, Boston Review, Callaloo, Cincinnati Review, Latino Book Review, Los Angeles Review, Oxford American, Southern Review, and TriQuarterly, among other places. Awards for her individual short stories include the Able Muse Prize in Fiction, the Anton Chekhov Award for Very Short Fiction, the Craft Flash Fiction Prize, the Crazyhorse Prize, the Danahy Fiction Prize, the Rick DeMarinis Prize, the Jack Dyer Prize, the New Millennium Writings Flash Fiction Prize, the Raleigh Review Flash Fiction Prize, the William Richey Prize, the River Styx Schlafly Microfiction Award, and the Lamar York Prize in Fiction.
Gautier has received fellowships and residencies from the American Antiquarian Society, Breadloaf Writer’s Conference, Callaloo, the Camargo Foundation, the Chateau de Lavigny, Flamboyán Foundation, Fondazione Bogliasco, Hawthornden, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, Kimbilio, Le Maison Dora Maar, the MacDowell Colony, the Mellon Foundation, the Ragdale Foundation, the Sewanee Writer’s Conference, the Social Science Research Council, VCCA, Vermont Studio Center, Ucross Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.
She is happy to return to Ragdale.