Leslee Becker

Disciplines: Literature – fiction
Disciplines: Literature – fiction
Based in Fort Collins, CO
Residencies: 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.

Originally known simply as Graphics Studio, this building was converted to its current use between 1972 and 1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation. Before this transformation, the building served as both a powerhouse and pump house for the property. Well water was drawn from a large cistern and…

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