Tim Gautreaux

Tim Gautreaux is the author of three novels and the collections Same Place, Same Thing and Welding with Children , and his work has appeared in The New Yorker , The Atlantic , Harper's , and GQ , as well as multiple times in The Best America Short Stories and New Stories from the South . His many honors include the National Magazine Award, the Southeastern Booksellers Award, the Heasley Prize, the John Dos Passos Prize, and the Louisiana Writer Award. After teaching for thirty years at...See more

Tim Gautreaux is the author of three novels and the collections Same Place, Same Thing and Welding with Children , and his work has appeared in The New Yorker , The Atlantic , Harper's , and GQ , as well as multiple times in The Best America Short Stories and New Stories from the South . His many honors include the National Magazine Award, the Southeastern Booksellers Award, the Heasley Prize, the John Dos Passos Prize, and the Louisiana Writer Award. After teaching for thirty years at Southeastern Louisiana University, he now lives, with his wife, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. See less