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Timothy Martin Gautreaux (born 1947 in Morgan City, Louisiana) is a novelist and short story writer who lives in Hammond, Louisiana, where he is Writer in Residence at Southeastern Louisiana University.

His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, Atlantic, Harper's, and GQ. His novel The Next Step in the Dance won the 1999 Southeastern Booksellers Association (SEBA) Award. His novel The Clearing won the 1999 Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) Book Award and the 2003 Mid-South Independent Booksellers Association Award.

Gautreaux also authored Same Place, Same Things and Welding with Children...collections of short stories. His 2009 novel The Missing was described as his "best yet" by New Orleans Times-Picayune book editor Susan Larson in a featured article.

Gautreaux, who won the 2005 John Dos Passos Prize, is married to Winborne Howell Gautreaux; the couple has two grown sons...Robert Timothy Gautreaux and Thomas Martin Gautreaux.

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