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A fiction writer and a scholar of American literature, Amina Gautier was the 2021 Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Charitable Foundation Special Fellow at Fondazione Bogliasco, a 2022-2023 Mellon Foundation/Flamboy谩n Foundation Letras Boricuas Fellow, the 2023-2024 AMUW Chair in Humanistic Studies at Marquette University and is the Spring 2026 Mary Routt Chair in Writing at 糖心TV.

Gautier 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 鈥淚PPY鈥� Award for Short Story Fiction, Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year Award Honorable Mention, and was a Finalist for the Housatonic Book Award and the Big Other Book Award, and was Longlisted for The Joyce Carol Oates Prize and 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 鈥淚PPY鈥� 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鈥機onnor 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鈥檚 21st Century Award, and the Pen/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story.

Gautier has published more than one hundred fifty short stories. Her fiction appears in AGNI, American Short Fiction, Boston Review, Callaloo, Cincinnati Review, Latino Book Review, Los Angeles Review, Oxford American, Southern Review, and TriQuarterly, among other places. Gautier鈥檚 awards for her individual short stories include the Able Muse Prize in Fiction, the Anton Chekhov Prize 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 Lamar York Prize in Fiction, the New Millennium Writings Flash Fiction Prize, the Raleigh Review Flash Fiction Prize, the River Styx Schlafly Microfiction Award, and the William Richey Prize. Gautier鈥檚 work has been reprinted in All About Skin! Women Writers of Color; Best African American Fiction 2009; Best African American Fiction 2010; Borderlands & Crossroads: Writing the Motherland; Choose Wisely: 35 Women Up to No Good; The Danahy Fiction Prize: Ten Years Ten Stories 2007-2017; Discoveries: New Writing from The Iowa Review; Forward 21st Century Flash Fiction Anthology; Home in Florida: LatinX Writers and The Literature of Uprootedness; The Line-Up: 20 Provocative Women Writers; Love in the Time of Time鈥檚 Up; New Stories from the South: The Year鈥檚 Best, 2008; On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library; The Notre Dame Review: The First Ten Years; The Sincerest Form of Flattery: Contemporary Women Writers on Forerunners in Fiction; Voices; What鈥檚 Next?:Short Fiction in Time of Change, and Welcome to The Neighborhood.

Gautier has received fellowships and residencies from the American Antiquarian Society, Breadloaf Writer鈥檚 Conference, Callaloo, the Camargo Foundation, the Chateau de Lavigny, Flamboy谩n 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鈥檚 Conference, the Social Science Research Council, VCCA, Vermont Studio Center, Ucross Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.
Her research has appeared in Approaches to Teaching Harriet Jacobs鈥檚 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Approaches to Teaching South Asian Anglophone Diasporic Literature, The Cambridge Companion to The American Short Story, Critical Insights: Frederick Douglass, Daedalus, and Libraries and Culture, and is forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of African American Humor Studies, Approaches to Teaching Post-1945 Short Fiction from the United States, and Approaches to Teaching the Works of Colson Whitehead. Gautier is a native of Brooklyn, NY.