"Geoffrey Becker has a musician's ear for the lives he listens to." 
     Madison Smartt Bell

Geoff Becker is the author of the novel Hot Springs (Tin House Books, 2010) and the collection Black Elvis (University of Georgia Press, 2009), as well as the novel Bluestown (St. Martin's Press, 1996) and the collection Dangerous Men (U. of Pittsburgh Press, 1995).  His awards and honors include: the Drue Heinz Prize for Literature, the Flannery O'Connor Prize for Short Fiction, The Nelson Algren Award, an NEA Fellowship, inclusion in the Best American Short Stories anthology, five Maryland Arts Council Awards, and the Parthenon Prize for Fiction.  He lives in Baltimore, Maryland, and teaches writing at Towson University.

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