Discipline: Literature – fiction

Leslee Becker

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Fort Collins, CO
MacDowell Fellowships: 1987
More: english.colostate.edu/news/faculty-profile-leslee-becker
Leslee Becker is an American writer and educator. Becker studied at Cortland College, the University of Vermont, Hollins College, and the University of Iowa. She has published several works, including her short story collection The Sincere Café, and her short stories have been featured in several publications, including The Atlantic, Epoch, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, New Letters, Nimrod, The Gettysburg Review, and The New England Review. Becker received several awards for her work, including the Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize, the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society Prize, the Boston Review Fiction Prize, the Wallace Stegner Fiction Fellowship, the Michener/Copernicus Society Award, the Mid-List Press Award for Short Fiction, the Ludwig Vogelstein Award, the John Stern Distinguished Professor Award, and the Pennock Distinguished Service Award. Becker currently teaches creative writing and literature at Colorado State University.

Studios

Putnam

Leslee Becker worked in the Putnam studio.

The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…

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