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词条 Amina Gautier
释义

  1. Early life and education

  2. Career

     Writer 

  3. Teacher

  4. References

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Amina Gautier is an American writer and academic. She is the author of three short story collections, many individual stories, as well as works of literary criticism. In 2014, she lived in both Chicago and in Miami.

Early life and education

Gautier was born and raised in New York. After participating in Prep for Prep, she attended the Nightingale Bamford School before graduating from Northfield Mount Hermon.[1] She then went to Stanford, where she earned bachelor's and master's degrees in English literature. She continued her education at the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned a master's degree and a Ph.D. in English literature.

She held a Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship at Stanford University, a Fontaine Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, a Mitchem Dissertation Fellowship at Marquette University, and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis.

Career

Gautier is a scholar of 19th century American literature. She has written criticism of the nineteenth century American authors Charles W. Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Elleanor Eldridge, Benjamin Franklin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Walt Whitman. Her critical essays and reviews have appeared in African American Review, Belles Lettres, Daedalus, Journal of American History, Libraries and Culture, Nineteenth Century Contexts and Whitman Noir. She has received fellowships from the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), the Social Science Research Council and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.

Writer

Gautier has published more than 85 short stories. Her fiction has appeared in a wide variety of magazines and story collections, and some of her stories have been reprinted in anthologies.

Her collection of short stories, Now We Will Be Happy, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize,[2] and her second collection, At-Risk,[3] won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.[4]

Gautier has been the recipient of the Crazyhorse Prize,[5] the Danahy Fiction Prize, the Jack Dyer Prize, the William Richey Prize, the Schlafly Microfiction Award and the Lamar York Prize in Fiction. She has received grants from the Illinois Arts Council and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and her fiction has been awarded fellowships and scholarships from American Antiquarian Society, Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, Callaloo Writer's Workshop, Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers, Hurston/Wright Foundation Writer's Workshop, Kimbilio, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, Key West Literary Seminar, MacDowell Colony, Prairie Center of the Arts, Sewanee Writer's Conference, Ucross Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Writers in the Heartland.

In 2016, Gauthier published her third short story collection, The Loss of All Lost Things (Elixir Press).[6]

Teacher

Gautier has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Marquette University, Saint Joseph's University and Washington University in St. Louis. Most recently, Gautier taught at DePaul University. In fall 2014, she joined the faculty in the MFA program at the University of Miami.[7]

Gautier is a member of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, the Chicago Writer's Association, the Delta Sigma Theta sorority, the Friends of American Writers Chicago, the Modern Language Association, the National Association of University Women, the National Council of Negro Women, the National Urban League and the Society of Midland Authors.

References

1. ^[https://aminagautier.wordpress.com Amina Gautier's website]
2. ^"Prairie Schooner Book Prize past winners: Now We Will Be Happy". Prairie Schooner
- "Now We Will Be Happy", Publishers Weekly.
- [https://lareviewofbooks.org/interview/when-much-is-at-stake-an-interview-with-amina-gautier "Jaquira Díaz interviews Amina Gautier"], Los Angeles Review of Books, November 25, 2015
- [https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/amina-gautier/now-we-will-be-happy-prairie-schooner-book-prize-i/ "NOW WE WILL BE HAPPY by Amina Gautier"], Kirkus Reviews, September 16, 2014
3. ^Debra Bendis, "At-Risk, by Amina Gautier" review, Christian Century, January 8, 2014.
4. ^Richard Thomas, "Review of At-risk, by Amina Gautier", The Nervous Breakdown, October 15, 2012. {{dead link|date=February 2019}}
5. ^"Amina Gautier" interviewed by Derek Alger, PIF Magazine June 1, 2012
6. ^Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/03/books/review/short-stories.html?_r=0 "Book Review: Short Stories"], New York Times, April 1, 2016
- Jaquira Díaz, "A Year in Reading: Jaquira Díaz", The Millions, December 11, 2015
- Amy O'Loughlin, [https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/the-loss-of-all-lost-things/ "The Loss of All Lost Things"], Foreword Reviews, May 20, 2016
7. ^Jeffrey Condran, "Now We Will Be Happy by Amina Gautier", Necessary Fiction, January 11, 2016. {{dead link|date=February 2019}}
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