Gabriel Houck is originally from New Orleans, Louisiana. He has MFAs from the California Institute of the Arts and the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program, and a PhD in creative writing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he is currently a Lecturer in the English Department. His first collection, “You or a Loved One,” won the 2017 Orison Fiction Prize, and will be published by Orison Books. His short story, “When the Time Came,” was selected as a distinguished story in the 2015 edition ofThe Best American Short Stories, edited by T.C. Boyle; other stories from his collection have won Mid American Review’s 2014 Sherwood Anderson Fiction Prize, earned 2nd place in the Glimmer Train 2016 New Writer Awards, been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and earned finalist honors in StoryQuarterly’s Fiction Prize, among others. Gabriel’s fiction appears/will appear shortly in Glimmer Train, The Sewanee Review, The Chattahoochee Review, Mid American Review, Western Humanities Review, New Delta Review, Grist, PANK, Moon City Review, Fourteen Hills, Bayou, Fiction Southeast, Lunch Ticket, Sequestrum, The Cimarron Review, and The Pinch.
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