About

Amina Gautier, who won the 21st Century Award from the Chicago Public Library in 2016, is the author of three short-story collections: The Loss of All Lost Things, which won the Elixir Press Fiction Award and the Phillis Wheatley Book Award; Now We Will Be Happy, which won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction; and At-Risk, which won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction.