New Faculty Spotlight

Dr. Gabriel Houck, Assistant Professor

Gabriel is originally from New Orleans, and his first collection, You or a Loved One, won the 2017 Orison Fiction Prize, judged by David Haynes. Stories from this collection – “The Dot Matrix” and “When the Time Came” – were shortlisted as distinguished sto-ries in the 2017 and 2015 editions of The Best American Short Stories, respectively.

Prior to teaching at the University of Louisiana, he served as the Emory University Arts Fellow in Fiction from 2019-2023, and has received scholar-ships and fellowships from the Tin House Workshops, the Sewanee Writ-ers Workshop, the Vermont Studio Center, Longleaf Writers Conference, the UCROSS Foundation, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. His creative work appears in journals such as Glimmer Train, West Branch, The Sewanee Review, The Chattahoochee Review, Mid American Review, Western Humanities Review, The Cimarron Review, Smokelong Quarterly, and most recently in the Driftwood Press 2024 Anthology. Gabriel lives in Lafayette, with a yard that would be perfect for a good rescue dog.