Gabriel Houck

Assistant Professor of Creative Writing

Education:
PhD, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2016
MFA, University of Iowa, 2009
MFA, California Institute of the Arts, 2006
BA, Johns Hopkins University, 2001

Office: HLG 231
Email: Gabriel.houck@louisiana.edu
Pronouns: he/him

Teaching and Research Areas:

Fiction Writing, Short Fiction, Genre Theory, Creative Nonfiction and Lyric Essay, Modern and Postmodern Literature

Notable:

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 stories 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 scholarships and fellowships from the Tin House Workshops, the Sewanee Writers 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.