Gary Fincke’s books have won the Flannery O’Connor Prize for Short Fiction, The Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Nonfiction Prose and the Wheeler Prize for Poetry. In 2025, he published five new books, including a new poetry collection For Now, We Have Been Spared (Slant Books), After Arson: New and Selected Essays (Madville Press) and The Comfort of Taboos: More Selected Stories (Braddock Avenue Books).

He founded °µÍøTV’s Writers Institute in 1993 and its creative writing major in 1996. Fincke directed the Institute for 21 years before his retirement.

Fincke’s reading is presented as part of the Seavey Reading Series, which provides students unparalleled access to acclaimed authors through readings and classroom activities.